The Granite Ountain Hotshots

On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.

The granite ountain hotshots.

The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. Entering their sixth season the 2013 granite mountain inter agency hotshots became instructors at the arizona incident and management academy. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was created to honor the hotshots. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching.

The crew had their own fire station station 7 where equipment including two 10 person crew carriers was housed. About granite mountain hotshots memorial state park. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was dedicated in 2016 as a place to remember the 19 granite mountain hotshot firefighters who were lost on june 30 2013 while fighting the yarnell hill fire. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.

Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew type 2 i a in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. A trail follows the last steps of the hotshots down to the fatality site where they made their last stand. Visitors leave mementos on the wire box enclosures. A three mile 4 8 km path leads from a parking area on highway 89 up to an observation deck.

About granite mountain hotshots memorial state park. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. Yarnell lee and diane helm own a ranch 600 yards from where 19 granite mountain hotshots died in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013.