What Happened At Granite Mtn Fire

This photo was taken on friday oct.

What happened at granite mtn fire.

The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013 on june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots just one of the hotshots on the crew survived he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them. 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.

Fifteen of the 20 granite mountain hotshots were in their 20s three just 21. 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. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.

The yarnell hill fire investigation conducted by the u s. A view of a memorial for the 19 granite mountain hotshots killed in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013. 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. The largest remaining question about the yarnell hill fire that killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshot crew in 2013 south of prescott arizona is why the crew left the safety of a.

Several had firefighting in their blood. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.