The Granite Mountain Hotshots Wiki

Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park is a state park near yarnell arizona created to memorialize the nineteen members of the granite mountain hotshots who died there on june 30 2013 while fighting the yarnell hill fire.

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Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was created to honor the hotshots. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew type 2 i a in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008.

A trail follows the last steps of the hotshots down to the fatality site where they made their last stand. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. The crew had their own fire station station 7 where equipment including two 10 person crew carriers was housed. Later that day.

On the morning of june 30 all 20 members of prescott arizona s granite mountain hotshots headed into the mountains to protect the small town of yarnell from an advancing blaze. The park located at the site where the firefighters died is accessed by a. The film tells the story of the granite mountain hotshots an elite crew of firefighters from prescott arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the yarnell hill fire in june 2013 and is dedicated to. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching.