The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the prescott fire department whose mission was to fight wildfires.
Video of granite mountain hotshots bodies.
Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008.
On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.
Part i of 2 prescott fire department wildlands divsion chief darrell willis discusses what might have happened to the 19 member granite mountain hotshot fire.
The two state investigations into the deaths of 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots released to the public in 2013 did not include the complete autopsy and toxicology reports of the men who were killed on june 30 2013 in the yarnell hill fire.