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The firefighters had apparently deployed fire shelters during the entrapment, but the heat of the wildfire soared over 2,000 °F (1,090 °C). [19] [20] Not all of the bodies were found inside the fire shelters. [21] The city of Prescott released the names of the 19 firefighters on July 1. [22]
Additionally, the PFD provides aircraft rescue and firefighting for the Prescott Municipal Airport. [3] Founded in 1885, it is the oldest fire department in the state of Arizona. [1] With a coverage area of 41.5 square miles (107 km 2) and serving a population of 39,843, the PFD consists of 92 career personnel, split among five fire stations. [1]
Only the Brave, originally titled Granite Mountain and subtitled as The True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots in previews, is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article "No Exit" by Sean Flynn. [1]
The fire began on June 24, 2017. The fire caused the Mayer Fire Department and the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office to shut down parts of Highway 69 between the towns of Mayer and Dewey-Humboldt. More than 100 people had to be evacuated. Most of the evacuees were from the town of Mayer. Unknown Dry grass / Brush / Chaparral Yavapai: 28,516 ac 5 ...
Yarnell Hill Fire: Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, part of the Prescott Fire Department, died on Sunday, June 30, 2013, while battling the wildfire that had ignited two days earlier south of Prescott. [23] Goodwin Fire: The wildfire ignited in the Bradshaw Mountains south of Prescott on Saturday, June 24, 2017. The fire ...
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office issued the order for residents near Mount Union, about 10 miles south of Prescott, after a wildfire began Monday morning. Evacuations ordered as wildfire ...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park is a state park near Yarnell, Arizona, created to memorialize the nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died there on June 30, 2013, while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. The park opened on November 30, 2016, and had over 18,000 visitors in its first year.
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