Hotshot crew
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In the United States, an Interagency Hotshot Crew, informally known as a hotshot crew, shot crew or IHC, is a team of specially trained wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priorit
A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.
A CCC fire crew at Camp Snider on the Olympic National Forest, Washington, 1933.
Little Tujunga Hotshot Crew of the Angeles National Forest in 1977.
A crew photo of the El Dorado Hotshots of the El Dorado National Forest, 2010.
Yarnell Hill Fire
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A wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona–ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013–overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department,
Hotshot crew
…Interagency Hotshot Crew. The Granite Mountain Hotshots were headquartered out of the Prescott Fire Department and operated until June 30, 2013, when the Yarnell Hill Fire overran and killed 19 of their 20 firefighters. As years went by, shot crews began to increase standards for physical competence and qualifications for…
The fire on July 1, 2013
Funeral procession for the victims