Why Didn T Fire Shelters Save Granite Mountain Hotshots

At 4 04 pm the granite mountain hotshots were still on the ridge above glen ilah.

Why didn t fire shelters save granite mountain hotshots. The tragedy all but wiped out the 20 member granite mountain hotshots a unit based at. Ashley smith times news david turbyfill whose son travis was a member of the granite mountain hotshots and died in the yarnell hill fire talks oct. The deaths of the granite mountain hotshots marked the nation s biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years. 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. The hotshots often work grueling 14 hour days battling fires carrying these last resort fire shelters on their belts. More 5 new things about fire that killed granite mountain hotshots firefighters a few hours after the flames burned over they would be among the first to learn the stunning news that a hotshot. Portable shelters couldn t save 19 members of elite hotshots firefighting crew killed in arizona blaze.

The death of 19 arizona firefighters is raising questions about the protective shelters that all wilderness firefighters are trained to use. The 19 firefighters killed in the yarnell hill fire southwest of prescott were part of an elite firefighting crew called the granite mountain hotshots according to the arizona incident management. 17 2013 about the need for a better. Only one member of the 20 person crew survived and that was because he.