One year ago today, 19 Firefighters died serving their country.
If you have already forgotten, 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighters died shortly after deploying their last-chance fire shelters in the Prescott Arizona area.
This particular fire has rocked the fire service to the core and has changed the face of wild land firefighting forever.
The fire service often talks about watershed moments or sentinel moments…well, this is is definitely one of them. The actions by the Incident Commander, Operations Section Chief, and numerous others will be scrutinized for their actions/orders in decades to come. And I am sure it will haunt them forever.
Even after all the After Action Reviews and Corrective Reports are published, it will never change the fact that 19 Brother Firefighter are dead.
If you have never heard of the fire, I suggest you get off your lazy boy recliner immediately and read up…like read everything about it. EVERY. SINGLE. THING.
It doesn’t affect me….BS.
I don’t fight wildfires…BS.
I’m not in Arizona….BS.
Look, it doesn’t matter if you are a big city firefighter or small town firefighter, paid or volunteer, rural or urban, new or old. In fact, I don’t care if you are a seasoned veteran or FNG, you need to know everything about this fire.
As fire service professionals, we all need to make sure this NEVER happens again. I never want to see this again.
Never forget and honor the fallen like Brothers…because they are family.
Where is @rusnivek? 