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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, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived (Brendan Mcdonough)—he was posted as a lookout on the ...
Below is a list of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States, in which more than five firefighters died. "Firefighter" is defined as a professional trained to fight fires. Hence the 1933 Griffith Park fire is excluded, as it killed 29 untrained civilians.
PHOENIX (AP) -- It was the worst loss of life for U.S. wildland firefighters in eight decades, a tragedy that killed 19 members of a Hotshot crew during an out-of-control inferno in a brush-choked ...
It was one of the deadliest wildland fires ever in the U.S., killing 19 members of an elite central Arizona firefighting crew in 2013 after flames trapped them in a brush-choked canyon. The city ...
Daniel Suhr and William M. Feehan, among 343 firefighters killed during the September 11 attacks; 2013. Yarnell Hill Fire deaths. Andrew Ashcraft, 29; Robert Caldwell ...
In 2013, the Yarnell Fire in Arizona killed 19 firefighters who were trying to protect homes just down the mountain. "We're still thinking that as humans, we can overpower nature. We're not that ...
2013 – Yarnell Hill Fire burned over 13 square miles, destroyed over 100 homes, [57] and killed 19 firefighters. [58] 2013 – Lac-Mégantic derailment caused an explosion and fire in the town centre that destroyed over 30 buildings and killed 46. [59] [60] The event was the deadliest train accident in Canada since 1864. [61]
The death toll has eclipsed the 19 deaths caused by the state’s historic ... Two volunteer firefighters were killed in Saluda County after a tree fell on their fire truck on Beulah Road around 6 ...