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Firefighters Killed

by Connor Radnovich
| July 1, 2013 8:24 AM

In this 2012 photo provided by the Cronkite News, the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew clears a fire line. On Sunday, 19 members of the Prescott, Ariz.-based crew were killed in the deadliest wildfire involving firefighters in the U.S. for at least 30 years. The firefighters were forced to deploy their emergency fire shelters when they were overrun by fire near the central Arizona town of Yarnell, (AP Photo/Cronkite News, Connor Radnovich)