By: Robert Avsec
Let us never forget that there were 20 members on the Prescott-based Granite Mountain Hotshots on that fateful June 30th, 2013. Firefighter Brendan McDonough was serving as a lookout–a critical job function in wildland firefighting operations–and relaying key information to his colleagues when a raging wildfire trapped and killed 19 of his brother firefighters. By all accounts, Firefighter McDonough did his job and did it well.
For that, we must never forget that 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots went to Yarnell, Arizona on that fateful Sunday in June…
A collection of some of the tributes (from across the Internet) to the members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who gave their lives in the service of others on June 30th, 2013.
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