Thousands of Mourners Honor 19 Fallen Firefighters

By admin July 8, 2013 14:14
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19-1Thousands of people paid their respects  to the 19 Hotshot firefighters killed in last week’s Arizona wildfire at a  procession through Phoenix.

Carrying American flags and patriotic signs,  the mourners lined highways and overpasses as 19 white hearses carrying the  fallen traveled for 125 miles through Arizona cities and towns.

Fellow firefighters, the men’s family members  and residents of Yarnell, the small town they died trying to save, openly cried  as the hourslong caravan crawled past.

The crew of elite Granite Mountain Hotshots  was working to build a fire line between the blaze and Yarnell when erratic  winds suddenly shifted the fire’s direction, causing it to hook around the  firefighters and cut off access to a ranch that was to be their safety  zone.

‘It’s overwhelming to watch this slow  procession of 19 hearses,’ Bill Morse, a Flagstaff fire captain  stationed in  Prescott for a week helping the fire department deal with  the tragedy, told  Dallas News.

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By admin July 8, 2013 14:14

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