Gallery: Dealing With The Yarnell Fire
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward, a spokesperson for the Prescott Fire Department, embraces David Turbyfill, whose son Travis died along with other members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013 at the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS David Turbyfill, whose son, Travis, died with 18 other members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, writes a note on a rock before placing it on a memorial on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a memorial for the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. This photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward, a spokesman for the Prescott Fire Department, looks at the fire shelter deployment site where 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a memorial for the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. This photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a memorial for the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. This photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a memorial for the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. This photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS An empty photo frame hangs on the wall of the station where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were based in Prescott, Ariz. The crew did not have a chance to get a team photo before 19 of the 20 firefighters died in the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A sign with notes from well-wishers in the station where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were based. The photo was taken on Thursday Oct. 17, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A photo of Robert Caldwell with his wife, Claire, hangs in the fire station where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were based. The photo was taken on Thursday Oct. 17, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of the weight room Oct. 17, 2013, and a sign that reads Steed's Dojo, at the fire station where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were based. Jesse Steed, 36, died with 18 other members of the crew on June 30.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward, a spokesperson for the Prescott Fire Department, looks at photos from the Yarnell Hill Fire at his office in the fire station where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were based, on Thursday Oct. 17, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a metal memorial made in David Turbyfill's show. Turbyfill's son, Travis, was a member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and died in the Yarnell Hill Fire June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS David Turbyfill, whose son, Travis, was a member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, talks Oct. 17, 2013, about the need for a better fire shelter that can withstand higher temperatures.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS David Turbyfill, whose son, Travis, was a member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, talks Oct. 17, 2013, about the need for a better fire shelter that can withstand higher temperatures.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS David Turbyfill, whose son, Travis, was a member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, talks Oct. 17, 2013, about the need for a better fire shelter that can withstand higher temperatures.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a home that burned during the Yarnell Hill Fire. This photo was taken in Yarnell, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of a home that burned during the Yarnell Hill Fire. This photo was taken in Yarnell, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Khan Rausch, 9, and sister Kallie, 6, make a fort on land in their neighborhood that burned during the Yarnell Hill Fire. The Rausch family home burned during the fire and they were living in a recreational vehicle while their home was being rebuilt in Yarnell, Ariz. This photo was taken on Oct. 18, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS David Turbyfill, whose son Travis died along with other members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, pauses next to a memorial for the firefighters on Oct. 18, 2013, at the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Yarnell Hill Fire
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Wade Ward, left, a spokesperson for the Prescott Fire Department, touches a burned tree with David Turbyfill, whose son, Travis, died with other members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward hikes the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire on Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward hikes the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire on Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Dave Turbyfill and Wade Ward hike the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire on Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view Oct. 18, 2013, of messages written on rocks in a memorial at the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Dave Turbyfill looks at a memorial to the 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died on June 30, 2013. Turbyfill's son, Travis, was one of the firefighters who died.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A view of the Yarnell Hill Fire on Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Dave Turbyfill and Wade Ward hike the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire on Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS A charred branch at the site of the Yarnell Hill Fire is photographed Oct. 18, 2013, near Yarnell, Ariz. The fire claimed the lives of 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
Yarnell Hill Fire
ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS Wade Ward, a spokesman for the Prescott Fire Department, places a rock Oct. 18, 2013, on a memorial for the firefighters who died in the Yarnell Hill Fire.
This can never happen again.
TWIN FALLS • When Roger Roth first explained what a fire shelter was to his brother, Jim told his younger sibling never to get in one.
YARNELL, Ariz. • Nineteen Granite Mountain Hotshots died in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30 for no good reason.
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Reminders of the Granite Mountain Hotshots are spread throughout Station 7.
TWIN FALLS • Wildland firefighters are dying at a rate six times higher than firefighters who charge into burning homes.