Ive just watched this brilliant movie paying respect to your wonderful brave men 👏👏👏 My love & simpathy to the families & friends for your loss😢 May they be at peace & know they're Heroes for ever. Love & condolences from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
I am watching from a few miles down the hill in Arizona as a wildfire burns not 3 miles from my home in identical rough terrain. Thank God, there's no wind today. But in grateful humility, my heart goes out to the families of these heroes. We think about your firefighter. We pray for you. Thank you. Thank you for your unfathomable sacrifice. Our hearts break for you. The people of Arizona look on that site as sacred ground. As long as wildfires burn in Arizona, we will never forget you.
My dad was a hotshot before he got into L.A.C.F.D. Air Attack and I was lucky enough to go into the Forest Service and join a hotshot crew as a fill in for someone who was injured. These guys immediately accepted me on my first day and I made it my mission to work as hard as they did. I was with them for 4 months, and it was a cool summer, therefore not too many fires. We still went out every day and cut fire breaks through out the Angeles Forest. Once the crew member came off of injury, I got transferred to an engine station. My career in firefighting ended when I contracted a lung infection and I moved onto other endeavors. Knowing how much I worried about my dad when he was on the fire line and gone for days and up to weeks, I would always hug him as hard I could when he came home. The Granite Mountain Hotshots will forever live in everyone's hearts and to this day, I have the utmost respect to those who go out onto the fire line because the risk of not coming home to your families is a wind shift away. RIP, gentlemen, my tears and respect for you will never end.
To this day, all these years later, it still hurts my soul. I will not ever know who the survivor has stayed alive. In my opinion, the folks that live in Prescott and the surrounding areas are heroes as well.
This clown Gonzalez took his shirt off and instigated a fight at a 14 u baseball game vs ATB in January 2024. He single handily RUINED the reputation of the TRex organization, and his brother Luis. So sad.
I can tell you right now as a lieutenant in urban search and rescue and retire fire service the leader of thst crew got his men killed by ooor leadership decision to get them cut off
Maybe not relevant for this particular fire but From my little students chair ...Firefighters need their own hand signals to communicate when all they can do is see their target. Radio out, Locomotive fire sound, across the gorge/draw/ etc. [Not fine hand configurations ... but arm and hand signals. Special ops have theirs for close in contact ... Look at the Indian Sign Language and the sign language for the deaf as a start point ... but get set signals to communicate in deployment situations.
I mean if you wanted to take down a Business, then just get 100k people and let them run wild. Drug them maybe and burn down the factories with them and it will work.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that the Arizona Forest Service didn't give any explanation as to why they went down that canyon towards the ranch, yet were supremely confident that nothing had been done wrong? Hotshot crew sups don't make decisions that take them out of a safety zone downslope on an approaching wind-driven chaparral fire. That almost always means an order came down from the top, and not the kind that ever gets recorded with any transparency. Honor them by getting to the bottom of it. There is much more to be learnt here.
indeed, indeed. It is also telling if one of the longest running bosses (Sup.) in United States Forest Service history wants me to place my documents so he can use my documents and explain them on Yarnell Hill Fire Revelations blog.
Heroes, all. I often wonder if they were too tired (or even hung over) to be out there. They seemed to abandon safety for no reason. That said, I wasn't there.
I , Have Watched The Movie Around 100 Times. And , Watching This Brings Back A Memory Of A Group Of People In Kingman , Az. That Donated Monies To The Families Of The Granite Mountain Hotshots. My , Heart Still Breaks And The Tears Flow. May They Rest In Peace . I , Have Walked The Memorial Trail And In Peace I Feel.
These HEROES tried to move from the black to their Safety Ranch and Got caught by the racing flame front.1) A new Watchout should be created to ALWAYS keep Eyes on the Fire and Stay on the Ridge if at all Possible instead of losing Sight of the fire in Canyons or draws. 2)Also they should be equipped with real shelters stainless sheets with aluminum cloth keeping them together and Sheep wool insulation inside. 3)NEXT they should have O2 canisters to breath. The Fire stole their oxygen. 4)NEXT they should have a couple of Steel cable kites to locate themselves to aircraft. 5)NEXT Hotshots should have access to aircraft channel and aircraft should have to monitor it and air channels. This is NOT a Climate change issue it IS a 50 Year Buildup of Unburnt Fuel Issue.
Some of these fires were moving 1 km a minute, that's faster than a car. Its impossible to get away with that. Its known that radios don't function properly in ash clouds. We owe our fire fighters the best technology they can get.
I live in North Carolina, a continent away. But I tip my hat to the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who gave their lives for the ultimately honorable cause of protecting their friends and their families. Rest in peace.
Two of the GM Hotshots were Marine Corps Combat Vets. All of them had sense and purpose to "Serve". They were trained to protect and to advance to the 'fire' not think about their own personal safety! It's about putting 'others' above self!'
If you were not there please dont judge. There are reasons why you leave the black. They were in route to their safety spot, and were going go get back into the action. Hotshot crews dont like to just watch! The weather changed look at the final report, everyone was caught off guard structure group leader missed judged the time and distance for trigger points for evacvs because it moved so fast. These guys were in various stages of deployment so not everyone got under their shelters!
They would still be alive if they would've followed the rules and stayed in the black. They broke several important rules that led to there deaths and the investigations proved that.
I was doing better dunks when I was younger... and I was only 6' 3". Watching a 6' 9" NBA player doing these dunks isn't impressive. It's actually easier to dunk when tossing the ball and catching it mid air.
