The Granite Mountain Hotshots Bodies

The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013.

The granite mountain hotshots bodies.

David turbyfill whose son travis died along with other members of the granite mountain hotshots pauses next to a. After burning for two days it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. The arizona state forestry division posted the clips on its website this week that were recorded by other firefighters on the day that 19 granite mountain hotshots died. At the age of five andrew moved to prescott with his family where he spent the next 24 years of his life with his brother thomas james t j ashcraft.

Granite mountain interagency hotshots crew. On june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the prescott fire department whose mission was to fight wildfires. Andrew sterling ashcraft was born on february 15 1984 to parents deborah pfingston and thomas ashcraft in orange california.

On june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. Below are the autopsy report of each victim that were made public in 2013. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them. The tragedy all but wiped out the 20 member granite mountain hotshots a unit based at prescott authorities said monday as the last of the bodies were retrieved from the mountain in the town of.

Another hotshot had several drugs of abuse in his blood but no alcohol. So what happened that fateful day. One of the most potentially significant but easily misunderstood findings in the toxicology reports is the presence of alcohol in the blood of 13 of the 19 granite mountain hotshots ranging from 01 to 09 percent. The granite mountain hotshots bodies were moved off the site within 24 hours.

A person is legally drunk in arizona at 08. A cell phone belonging to granite mountain superintendent eric marsh and a functioning camera belonging to hotshot christopher mackenzie were with the men s bodies when they arrived at the medical.