19 Firefighters Killed Battling AZ Wildfire

Worse then Mann Gulch. And I have seen fires with fire walls as high as 60 feet. I have seen oil wells burning. A tremendous loss for the region and the brotherhood of Fire Fighters. May they RIP.


See:

http://www.ktsmradio.com/articles/national-news-104668/19-firefighters-killed-battling-az-wildfire-11444362/


''Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said that the 19 firefighters were a part of the city's fire department.

"We grieve for the family. We grieve for the department. We grieve for the city," he said at a news conference Sunday evening. "We're devastated. We just lost 19 of the finest people you'll ever meet."

Hot shot crews are elite firefighters who often hike for miles into the wilderness with chain saws and backpacks filled with heavy gear to build lines of protection between people and fires. They remove brush, trees and anything that might burn in the direction of homes and cities.

The crew killed in the blaze had worked other wildfires in recent weeks in New Mexico and Arizona, Fraijo said.''



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/30/arizona-wildfire-yarnell_n_3526934.html[B

may they rest in pace