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Las Cruces Sun-News
March 30, 2018
After a spring and summer last year with relatively few wildfires, authorities are warning that the conditions this year could make for a difficult and dangerous fire season. “New Mexico is experiencing below-normal precipitation, wind, seasonally higher-than-normal temperatures and an abundance of fineÃâà...
ABC15 Arizona
March 22, 2018
YARNELL, AZ - Decades of mementos may have gone up in flames, but an Arizona couple is alive to create new memories thanks to a smoke alarm donated and installed by the American Red Cross. Rita-Kay Perdue were getting ready for bed with her husband Larry when she heard beeping. At first, sheÃâà...
durhamregion.com (blog)
March 2, 2018
The movie shows how the fire-fighting group worked hard to achieve their elite status as fire-fighters working together to battle wildfires both locally and abroad. In June 2013 the crew was fighting a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona when tragedy struck as the wildfire overtook the team of firefighters.
Reading Eagle
February 5, 2018
"Only the Brave": Joseph Kosinski's "Only the Brave" is a deeply moving recounting of the events leading up to the death of 19 firefighters, known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, while trying to protect the small town of Yarnell, Ariz., in 2013. A series of unfortunate events put the firefighting team in the pathÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 4, 2018
R *Ãâý. “LBJ”: Woody Harrelson disappears into the role of the man who became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. R ****. “Only the Brave”: Josh Brolin and Miles Teller are part of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who went up against a wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz. Based on a true story. PG-13 ****.
KJZZ
November 24, 2017
Courtesy photo. Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died in 2013 while protecting the town of Yarnell. ... The Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park opened last year and includes rugged trail to the site where the firefighters died outside the small town of Yarnell. The AssociatedÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
October 16, 2017
These are the stories of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died Sunday, June 30, 2013, while fighting a fire near Yarnell, Ariz. ... made with undated family photos provided via the City of Prescott, Ariz. shows the 19 firefighters killed battling an out-of-control wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz., on June 30, 2013.
AZCentral.com
July 19, 2017
The film "Only the Brave," based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and the fatal Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona, opens in theaters Friday, Oct. 20. Hollywood's take on the tragic events of June 30, 2013, when 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters were overtaken by a wildfire near Yarnell,Ãâà...
The Denver Post
June 29, 2017
In this photo shot by firefighter Andrew Ashcraft, members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots watch a growing wildfire that later swept over and killed the crew of 19 firefighters near Yarnell, Ariz., Sunday, June 30, 2013. Ashcraft texted the photo to his wife, Juliann, but died later that day battling theÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 23, 2017
ACE crew leader Bryan Wright and Brian Rothlisberger of the Florence Wildland Fire Crew discuss how the new Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park came to be. Mark Henle/azcentral.com. Treading the fateful ground in new state park is a wrenching experience. Granite Mountain HotshotsÃâà...
AZCentral.com
November 28, 2016
Getting to the spot where 19 firefighters died battling a wildfire threatening the town of Yarnell requires a hike of about 3.5 miles and an ascent of more than 1,100 feet, akin to a skyscraper. It is a hike that taxes the heart, in every way. Affixed to boulders lining the path every few hundred feet are plaquesÃâà...
ABC News
June 9, 2016
Fire crews are still working to contain a wildfire that grew to more than 700 acres near Yarnell, Arizona, Wednesday evening, officials said. ... The brush fire threatened structures Wednesday in the north-central Arizona town of Yarnell — the scene of a 2013 wildfire in which 19 members of an eliteÃâà...
NBCNews.com
June 8, 2016
A brush fire burns in Yarnell, Ariz., Wednesday, June 8, 2016. The brush fire threatened structures Wednesday in the north-central Arizona town of Yarnell ? the scene of a 2013 wildfire in which 19 members of an elite firefighting crew were killed. Some residents on the town's east and west sides wereÃâà...
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