The Granite Ountain Hotshots

Yarnell lee and diane helm own a ranch 600 yards from where 19 granite mountain hotshots died in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013.

The granite ountain hotshots.

The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was dedicated in 2016 as a place to remember the 19 granite mountain hotshot firefighters who were lost on june 30 2013 while fighting the yarnell hill fire. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching.

Visitors leave mementos on the wire box enclosures. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. A three mile 4 8 km path leads from a parking area on highway 89 up to an observation deck. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was created to honor the hotshots.

The site where fast moving flames trapped the granite mountain hotshots five years ago is dry scrub surrounded by stony hills on three sides. About granite mountain hotshots memorial state park. A trail follows the last steps of the hotshots down to the fatality site where they made their last stand. The crew had their own fire station station 7 where equipment including two 10 person crew carriers was housed.

Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew type 2 i a in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. The granite mountain inter agency hotshots had been protecting the city with over 3 1 billion in assessed value over 18 000 homes and 24 000 residents.