Update: Arizona Fire Tragedy

From the Prescott Daily Courier: They're regular people, like anyone else except for their jobs as hotshots.
And the Granite Mountain Hotshots were hailed as heroes Monday.
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar led an afternoon memorial service for the 19 Prescott firefighters who lost their lives June 30 while battling the 8,400-acre Yarnell Hill fire.
Over a thousand mourners filled the activity center on the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Emergency services personnel who could be spared from duty came to ERAU to mourn and offer support to the families of the firefighters.
Firefighters from throughout the state attended the service with family members and friends. Some leapt over the center's plastic yellow benches to embrace their peers.
Among the firefighting personnel in attendance were members of the Forest Service hotshot crew based in Prescott, who received a standing ovation and more than a minute of applause.
Sixth-grader Emily McMahon, of Trinity Christian School, sang the National Anthem to start the service.
"Twenty-four hours ago I was at an amusement park with my two daughters in California. Twenty-three hours ago I received a text message that our hotshot crew had burned up. I responded to it with the question, 'How many fatalities?' The answer was 'All of them,'" said Prescott Fire Division Chief Don Devendorf.  http://prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&ArticleID=120798
The City of Prescott has released the names of the 19 victims in the Yarnell Hill fire. All were members of the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Those who lost their lives are:

   Ashcraft, Andrew - Age: 29

• Caldwell, Robert - Age: 23

• Carter, Travis - Age: 31

• Deford, Dustin - Age: 24

• MacKenzie, Christopher - Age: 30

• Marsh, Eric - Age: 43

• McKee, Grant - Age: 21

• Misner, Sean - Age: 26

• Norris, Scott - Age: 28

• Parker, Wade - Age: 22

• Percin, John - Age: 24

• Rose, Anthony - Age: 23

• Steed, Jesse - Age: 36

• Thurston, Joe - Age: 32

• Turbyfill, Travis - Age: 27

• Warneke, William - Age: 25

• Whitted, Clayton - Age: 28

• Woyjeck, Kevin - Age: 21

• Zuppiger, Garret - Age: 27

The Prescott Fire Department did not release the name of the lone Granite Mountain Hotshot who survived the fire because he was working in a different location on the fire. Officials said it might be a few days before his name is released.
Marsh was the superintendent of the hotshot team who had led it since its founding in 2008.
Just last week while the team was wrapping up its efforts on the Doce wildfire on Granite Mountain near Prescott, Marsh talked about tracing Granite Mountain's shadow on paper to create the hotshots' logo for their helmets.
"It's kind of bittersweet," Marsh said of the Doce wildfire, because the hotshots often hiked up their namesake mountain during workouts since it's so close to the city.
The team hiked up Granite Mountain during the Doce fire to save an ancient alligator juniper that is listed as the largest such species in the world alongside another Prescott National Forest alligator juniper.
"They were hard-working people," Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said at a news conference Monday afternoon shortly after the department released the names of its dead. "I never heard them complain."
The 19 men deployed their fire shelters but to no avail, officials said.
"That's a last ditch effort to save yourself," Fraijo said.
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