Why Didn T The Shelters Protect The Granite Mountain Hotshots

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.

Why didn t the shelters protect the granite mountain hotshots. Travis turbyfill 27 was a granite mountain hotshot crew member from prescott ariz. 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. Only one member of the 20 person crew survived and that was because he. At 4 04 pm the granite mountain hotshots were still on the ridge above glen ilah.

The death of 19 arizona firefighters is raising questions about the protective shelters that all wilderness firefighters are trained to use. 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. Soon after that they headed downhill into a narrow box canyon that was smothered with dense 10 foot high chaparral. The tragedy sunday evening almost wiped out the 20 member granite mountain hotshots a unit based in the small town of prescott prescott fire chief dan fraijo said.

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.