Prescott officials planned to hold a ceremony on Sunday dedicating a memorial statue to the 19 firefighters who were killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire, on the tragedy’s 11-year-anniversary. In a post from Prescott Fire Department’s Facebook, they said that the Dedication of the Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial will occur at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday […]
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State recruits firefighters for what could become New Mexico’s first-ever Hotshots
Feb. 5—What does it take to build a Hotshot firefighting crew from the ground up? How about two of them? New Mexico officials are about to find out. The State Forestry Division, part of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, is setting out to build two elite firefighting crews from scratch, one to be […]