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A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-22 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad.
On June 30, wildland firefighters with the Prescott Fire Department's interagency Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. [17] Initial reports indicated that one of the firefighters was not a member of the hotshot crew (IHC), but Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were Granite Mountain Hotshots. [18]
The Lolo Hotshots are a specialist Interagency Hotshot Crew [1] [2] based out of the Lolo National Forest in west-central Montana. [3] The crew consists of 21 permanent and seasonal wildland firefighters .
Hotshots are not considered firefighters. They are what is called “forestry technicians,” employed by the Forest Service and other federal, state and county agencies, and as such are paid ...
Hot Shot firefighters have helped suppress hundreds of small wildfires that have ignited after lightning strikes this summer. This article originally appeared on Salem Statesman Journal: Hotshot ...
Interagency hotshot crews are highly trained hand crews sent to help fight particularly challenging fires. An engine crew , meanwhile, rolls to the fire line with a fire engine to pump water or ...
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]
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 ...