Yarnell Hill Fire

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A wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona–ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013–overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department, on June 30. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived (Brendan McDonough) — he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them. The Yarnell Hill Fire was one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires since the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which killed 25 people, and the deadliest wildland fire for U.S. firefighters since the 1933 Griffith Park fire, which killed 29 "impromptu" civilian firefighters drafted on short notice to help battle the Los Angeles area fire. Yarnell also killed more firefighters than any incident since the September 11 attacks. The Yarnell Hill Fire is the sixth-deadliest American firefighter disaster in history, the deadliest wildfire ever in the state of Arizona, and (at least until 2014) was "the most-publicized event in wildland firefighting...

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