Why Fire Shelters Did Not Save Granite Mountain Hotshots

Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.

Why fire shelters did not save granite mountain hotshots. Firefighers found dead. The hotshots often work grueling 14 hour days battling fires carrying these last resort fire shelters on their belts. Only one member of the 20 person crew survived and that was because he. 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.

17 2013 about the need for a better fire shelter. 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. 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 deaths of the granite mountain hotshots marked the nation s biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.

On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. America s elite firefighters 20 photos ariz. Was a member of the granite mountain hotshots and died in the yarnell hill fire talks oct. Life saver or death trap.

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.