Why Did The Fire Blankets Not Save Granite Mountain

The helms never saw the granite mountain hotshots on the day they died and never knew the crew was working nearby.

Why did the fire blankets not save granite mountain.

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 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. Wade parker 22 was the son of a local fire captain. Fifteen of the 20 granite mountain hotshots were in their 20s three just 21.

When members of the blue ridge team. The safety zone wasn t planned yarnell hill fire officials had identified. Several had firefighting in their blood. The deaths of the granite mountain hotshots marked the nation s biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.

Members of another hotshot team the blue ridge hotshots tried to save the trapped granite mountain crew but were pushed back by the fire s immense heat. Only one member of the 20 person crew survived and that was because he. Ashley smith times news david turbyfill whose son travis was a member of the granite mountain hotshots and died in the yarnell hill fire talks oct. 17 2013 about the need for a better.