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Convoy to take remains of fallen Arizona firefighters home
2013-07-07 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A solemn caravan of vehicles carrying the remains of 19 firefighters killed battling an Arizona wildland blaze a week ago is set to leave Phoenix on Sunday on a final journey passing through the crew's hometown. The convoy is to leave the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office in central Phoenix late morning, passing beneath crossed fire ladders on a street flanked with fire trucks as it heads for Prescott Valley, about 100 miles north of Phoenix. It was the greatest loss of life fighting...
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7/3/13 Statement to City Council Regarding Arizona firefighters
2013-07-03 20:07:50| PortlandOnline
City Council observed a moment of silence today and flew the city flag at half staff in honor of the firefighters who lost their lives this week in Arizona.
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How Hotshot firefighters made one last desperate bid for survival
2013-07-02 14:37:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: With no way out, the 19 elite firefighters did what they were trained to do when trapped by a raging fire: they unfurled their foil-lined, heat-resistant tarps and rushed to cover themselves on the ground. The glue holding the layers of the tarp together begins to come apart at about 500 degrees, well above the 300 degrees that would almost immediately kill a person. But that last, desperate line of defence couldn't save the "Hotshot" crew from the flames that swept over them in the small town...
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Fast-moving Arizona wildfire leaves 19 firefighters dead, destroys more than 200 homes
2013-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Gusty, hot winds blew an Arizona blaze out of control Sunday in a forest northwest of Phoenix, overtaking and killing 19 members of an elite fire crew in the deadliest wildfire involving firefighters in the U.S. for at least 30 years. The "hotshot' firefighters were forced to deploy their emergency fire shelters -- tent-like structures meant to shield firefighters from flames and heat -- when they were caught near the central Arizona town of Yarnell, state forestry spokesman Art Morrison told...
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Firefighters gain some ground against New Mexico blazes
2013-06-08 05:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zelie Pollon: Firefighters, taking advantage of cooling temperatures, gained ground on Friday against a pair of blazes in New Mexico, one of them threatening dozens of archeological sites and sacred Native American landmarks west of Santa Fe. The so-called Thompson Ridge fire, burning for a week in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, had scorched at least 14,000 acres of rugged forest lands as of Friday, with containment lines carved around 10 percent of the blaze so far, fire information officer Jan Bardwell...
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