AZ - Yarnell Hill fire: 19 Firefighters killed

[mysteriew]

Yarnell Hill Fire: Memorial service details released
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20130705yarnell-fire-firefighters-memorial-service.html

Looks like the Memorial will be Tues. 11 am until 1 pm.

 

[Dr. Know?]

Live coverage

Prescott Fire ‏@Prescott_Fire 1m Live feed from honor escort at http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001 …

http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001

 

[Dr. Know?]

The live coverage is expected to last 3 hours. The Fire Fighters will be escorted from Maricopa County Medical Examiners office to back home. The Patriot Guard is in attendance and it's said they will follow the 19 hearses back to Prescott Valley.

 

[Zuri]

Live coverage

Prescott Fire ‏@Prescott_Fire 1m Live feed from honor escort at http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001 …

http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001

Thank you for posting all the info that you have since this tragedy happened. My heart goes out to the families of the fallen as well as those that knew them. I will watch the procession with a heavy heart as it gets underway on the link you provided.

 

[Dr. Know?]

YW Zuri. The AZ live link is down while the helicopter refuels. Here's a link to an article with some pictures of the procession. Scroll down.

http://www.azcentral.com/live/?event=yarnell-hill-fire-procession

 

[mysteriew]

This one is hard. It is an interview with one of the men fighting the fire. He describes what he heard and saw during the fire, and later when they went to retrieve the fallen. Bringing them off the mountain.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/articles/20130706yarnell-hill-fire-remembrance.html

Very good article though

Recommended reading!

 

[Dr. Know?]

http://www.azcentral.com/live/?event=yarnell-hill-fire-procession

 

[Zuri]

I am trying to understand the deployment of the fire tents (sorry, I don't know the term). I read that it is a last ditch effort and saw on the news how they are used. I have some questions if anyone knows. TIA
What are they made of?
They are only successful if the fire is fast moving? What is considered fast moving?
Do they protect you from the flames only or also from the heat?
What about oxygen? Do the firefighters have respirators too?
If you could guess, was it the intense heat that killed the firefighters? No oxygen? Actual flames?
With all the technology out there, is there a better material that could be used? Or better design of the "fire tents"? Can't NASA or some government agency (instead of wasting our $) develop something that could increase a firefighter's odds to better than 50/50 or am I naive?

This is just so tragic and I hope this never happens again. My heart is broken for these families and for the lives of these young men cut short. I would rather have my house burn down than for someone to lose their life over it.

Thank you for helping me with this.

 

[mysteriew]

http://www.azcentral.com/live/?event=yarnell-hill-fire-procession

Their color is white. They brought them off the mountain in white trucks too.

19 white hearses. That brings a tear to your eyes.

 

[mysteriew]

Yarnell Hill Fire: Fallen firefighters brought home in stirring procession
http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...ire-firefighters-procession-prescott-brk.html

 

[mysteriew]

Yarnell evacuation order lifted; residents return to homes

“I’ve got good news; You’re going home,” said Yarnell Fire Department Chief Jim Koile Sunday during a 4 p.m. community meeting at Wickenburg High School. That’s where the American Red Cross has been operating a shelter for evacuees.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/articles/20130707yarnell-residents-going-home-monday.html

 

[Dr. Know?]

AZ Family ‏@azfamily 33m Our LIVE coverage of today's memorial service for the Yarnell firefighters is on the air now on 3TV or online stream http://az3.tv/Zitpl9

LIVE Coverage: Yarnell 19 Memorial Service
12 News live coverage of the memorial service for the 19 firefighters who lost their lives on Yarnell Hill. Coverage starts at 10:45 am (PST)

http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001

 

[Dr. Know?]

NBC Nightly News ‏@nbcnightlynews 7m Bell rings for each of the 19 firefighters killed battling Arizona wildfire #Yarnell19 pic.twitter.com/pRQuqqgCEa

R.I.P. Brave Firefighers, R.I.P.

 

[mysteriew]

NBC Nightly News ‏@nbcnightlynews 7m Bell rings for each of the 19 firefighters killed battling Arizona wildfire #Yarnell19 pic.twitter.com/pRQuqqgCEa

R.I.P. Brave Firefighers, R.I.P.

Rest in peace brave men

 

[MsFacetious]

Speechless. :tears:

The ashes of Sean Misner, one of the 19 firefighters who died last week in Arizona,
were being transported by his wife back to their hometown on Tuesday.

She was in his truck and is pregnant with their unborn child.

On every overpass for nearly 500 miles there was a tribute similar to this.

God Bless Sean and all that gave their lives to protect others.

https://www.facebook.com/SeanMisnerMemorial

 

[Crimson clover]

Speechless. :tears:

The ashes of Sean Misner, one of the 19 firefighters who died last week in Arizona,
were being transported by his wife back to their hometown on Tuesday.

She was in his truck and is pregnant with their unborn child.

On every overpass for nearly 500 miles there was a tribute similar to this.

God Bless Sean and all that gave their lives to protect others.

https://www.facebook.com/SeanMisnerMemorial

The pictures are AMAZING! Thank you so much!
I'm very touched by them...yet, not so surprised. Firefighters are a brotherhood, a unity always taking care of their own, and especially their families after death of a brother/sister firefighter.

Nineteen. So sad.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-tragedy-miscalculation-lead-men-deaths.html

"Official blames leader of 19 firefighters who died in Arizona tragedy for 'serious miscalculation' that lead men to their deaths"

"The leader of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew, the team of 19 firefighters killed after getting trapped in a fierce Arizona inferno last month, has been accused of violating wildfire safety protocols."

"Eric Marsh, together with 18 of his colleagues perished in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30.
Now the deputy director of the Arizona State Forestry Division, Jerry Payne, has said he believes Marsh, 43, ‘violated several basic wildfire rules including not knowing the location of the fire, not having a spotter observing the fire and leading his crew through thick, unburned vegetation near a wildfire.’

“The division supervisor broke those rules and put those people at risk,” Payne told InvestigativeMedia.com."

 

[longtallcold]

saw about benefits rescinded for 13 or the 19 on FB - this is what I found

~off to look for a link~


http://www.kpho.com/story/22858534/benefits-differ-for-families-of-fallen-prescott-firefighters

ok they were seasonal and will still receive some

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Lone survivor of Arizona fire crew describes hearing his comrades' phones ringing with desperate calls from their wives... but he knew all 19 were already dead

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ntain-Hotshots-survivor-recounts-tragedy.html

 

[danzn16]

Lone survivor of Arizona fire crew describes hearing his comrades' phones ringing with desperate calls from their wives... but he knew all 19 were already dead

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ntain-Hotshots-survivor-recounts-tragedy.html

This was also one of the things the rescue workers at the Virginia tech massacre said bothered them the most. The phones ringing in the pockets of the deceased students knowing it was their families worrying about them. So very sad. I am surprised these firefighters phones withstood the fire. God bless their wives, I can't imagine.


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