The Granite Ountain 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.

The granite ountain hotshots.

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. About granite mountain hotshots memorial state park. 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. 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.

The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. Entering their sixth season the 2013 granite mountain inter agency hotshots became instructors at the arizona incident and management academy. Visitors leave mementos on the wire box enclosures. A trail follows the last steps of the hotshots down to the fatality site where they made their last stand.

About granite mountain hotshots memorial state park. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. The crew had their own fire station station 7 where equipment including two 10 person crew carriers was housed.

Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was created to honor the 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. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.