Why Did The Granite Mountain Hotshots Die

Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching the news with her four children.

Why did the granite mountain hotshots die. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. With all the technology we have in today s world why these 19 firefighters had. Soon after that they headed downhill into a narrow box canyon that was smothered with dense 10 foot high chaparral. The two state investigations into the deaths of 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots released to the public in 2013 did not include the complete autopsy and toxicology reports of the men who were killed on june 30 2013 in the yarnell hill fire.

And we ll miss them. At 4 04 pm the granite mountain hotshots were still on the ridge above glen ilah. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. The spared member of the elite granite mountain hotshots crew whose name has not yet been released was said to be distraught and feeling guilty that he was alive and his 19 brothers were dead.

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. 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. 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. But he tries as he looks out over the crosses that dot the narrow canyon where the granite mountain hotshots died.