What Happened At Granite Mtn Fire

Granite mountain crewmember joe thurston the one who suffered the bona fide heat stroke that saturday june 29 but was still allowed to be on the crew roster the very next day for the yarnell assignment used to work there.

What happened at granite mtn fire.

Several had firefighting in their blood. This photo was taken on friday oct. A view of a memorial for the 19 granite mountain hotshots killed in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013. The tragedy all but wiped out the 20 member granite mountain hotshots a unit based at prescott authorities said monday as the last of the bodies were retrieved from the mountain in the town of.

Wade parker 22 was the son of a local fire captain. Forest service deliberately ignored information provided by a former hotshot superintendent that the leader of the granite mountain hotshots had a documented history of making bad decisions in violation of basic wildfire safety rules federal records and interviews reveal. Fifteen of the 20 granite mountain hotshots were in their 20s three just 21. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.

The prescott brewing company is the place that created a new special beer for the granite mountain. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. This photo was taken on friday oct. Yarnell lee and diane helm own a ranch 600 yards from where 19 granite mountain hotshots died in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013.

The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. Turning the granite mountain fuels crew from a wide eyed group of 20 men not even allowed to set foot on the fire line into certified hotshots was eric s singular focus.