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The 2013 Granite Mountain Hotshots (LLC) Team to Our Knees Summer 2013 ▲ Vol. 3 Issue 2 ▲ Produced and distributed quarterly by the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center I bet you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard about the tragedy at Yarnell Hill. I sure do, and I will never forget it. We are dedicating our Summer Issue of Two More Chains to our 19 fallen Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew brothers who lost their lives on June 30, 2013, on the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona. This tragic loss has shaken the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center The 2013 Granite Mountain Hotshots (LLC) team to our knees. We are struggling—just like you—with what we can do to assist the families and our fellow firefighters during such a “Our deepest sympathies to the families, friends, and coworkers of the difficult time. Granite Mountain IHC. We are the safety net of the wildland community Three LLC team members and we will continue to be there during these dark hours.” were able to attend the th The Wildland Firefighter Foundation July 9 memorial service www.wffoundation.org in Prescott Valley to Phone: 208-336-2996 show our support and How You Can Help pay our respects. May our fallen brothers The Wildland Firefighter Foundation’s main focus is to help families of firefighters killed in the line of duty rest in eternal peace. and to assist injured firefighters and their families. The link below provides info on how you can help this effort. Brit Rosso Lessons Learned bitly.com/wffdonate Center Manager 1 Granite Mountain Hot Shots “Esse Quam Videri” Darrell Willis, Division Chief of the Prescott Fire Department, informs us that the following is a letter written earlier this year by Eric Marsh, Superintendent of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who perished with 18 of his fellow crewmembers on the Yarnell Hill Fire. “Eric,” says Division Chief Willis, “wanted to let others know about who GMIHC is.” Who are the Granite Mountain Hotshots? This is a simple question with a complex answer. We are many things to many different people. To our peers, the 111 other Interagency Hotshot Crews in the nation, we are an oddity. In a workforce Memorial service photo dominated by Forest Service and other federal crews, we have managed to do the impossible; establish a fully by Wade Ward. certified IHC program hosted by a municipal fire department. As remarkable and hard-won as this achievement is, we are odd for other reasons, too. We look different. Not because our buggies are white instead of green, but because we smile a lot. We act different. We are positive people. We take a lot of pride in being friendly and working together, not just amongst ourselves, but with other crews, citizens, etc. We are problem solvers. We like to show up to a chaotic and challenging event, and immediately break it down into manageable objectives and present a solution. Quite often, we solve problems for people that they don’t even know they have. These things are possible because our folks are smart, motivated, and highly trained professionals that don’t see any task as “beneath” them. To our city coworkers, we are a bit of a mystery. Guys that work in the woods a lot. We are nice, professional, and can assist many different departments with all manner of tasks. We show up when it snows, when something needs to be moved or set up, when it floods, when there are fireworks, when something needs a chainsaw. Most folks might not know we’ve been around for almost 12 years. Our first six years were spent in a building that had no heat or bathrooms, but lots of squirrels and mice. We didn’t complain too much, we just accepted it as necessary in order to fulfill our crazy dream of someday being a hotshot crew. We do a lot of fuels management, both on private property and city owned open space. We use chainsaws to cut the vegetation and then physically drag it to a chipper. It’s loud and dusty. This is a daily occurrence unless we are fighting fire or bad weather. We lead the nation with our fuels management program, having accomplished more than anyone else. To our families and friends, we’re crazy. Why do we want to be away from home so much, work such long hours, risk our lives, and sleep on the ground 100 nights a year? Simply, it’s the most fulfilling thing any of us have ever done. It is difficult to explain the attraction of such a demanding job. We can show our wives and girlfriends pictures or videos, recount events and tell stories, but we all invariably receive the same blank stare and the obligatory “that’s nice sweetheart” response. It’s not because they don’t care. Our families are the most wonderful, supportive people in the world. It’s just difficult for anyone to grasp the magnitude of suffering and joy that we experience during a given fire season, unless you have been there yourself. To each other, we are chameleons. On the job, we are workers and supervisors, from no experience to 19 years of ‘hotshotting’ all over the country. Some of us are highly skilled with chainsaws; some have the stamina to swing a hand tool all day. Many of us have lots of experience with helicopters. When on a fire, we average 16 hours a day on shift, every day, for two weeks. We may hike with all of our gear for one to two hours before we get to our piece of fireline where we will start work. We don’t have bathrooms or showers and we eat a lot of bad food. We love it. Off the job, we are husbands, fathers, and boyfriends. We are cowboys, hot rodders, rock climbers, hunters, marathoners and bicycle racers. Due to our work, we have to fit a year’s worth of normal life into a six month period during our winters. It really makes us appreciate the time with our families and pursuing our hobbies. Maybe to answer the question of who are we, it would be helpful to explore who or what we are not. We are not nameless or faceless, we are not expendable, we are not satisfied with mediocrity, we are not willing to accept being average, we are not quitters. Is this an all-inclusive answer to the question of who are we? No. Hopefully this is at least a beginning. We are approachable and we have no secrets. We are proud and passionate about our program. These things will show through during a discussion with any of our crewmembers. We don’t just call ourselves hotshots, we are hotshots in everything that we do. 2 Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew 1700 Iron Springs Road, Prescott, AZ 86305 This crew history was written by members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots for publication in “Hotshot Crew History of America” that is currently in production. Its release date is unknown. GMIHC History In the spring of 1990, the City Manager of Prescott, Forest Supervisor of the Prescott National Forest, and Prescott Fire Department Staff met to discuss the potential for a devastating wildfire that could affect the community. The ideas that came out of the meeting were for the community to come together with the agencies to prepare for and mitigate this potential problem. The Prescott City Council, Yavapai County, Arizona State Land Department, and Prescott National Forest signed a joint resolution creating the Prescott Area Wildland Urban Interface Commission (PAWUIC), which is a citizen-led, agency-supported group that continues today as a national model in coordinating and mitigating the risk of wildfire in the Prescott area. The year 2000 saw the implementation of the National Fire Plan. Prescott was well on its way with PAWUIC to take advantage of the resources in this plan. The problem was that the public education was happening, but we could not get the work done on the ground to protect the community. In 2001, with the support of PAWUIC and the City of Prescott, the Prescott Fire Department created a Wildland Division. The first order of business for the Wildland Division was to conduct a risk assessment and to develop a community-wide Vegetation Management Plan for the City of Prescott. The risk assessment found that Prescott was “living on the edge” and was designated as one of nine communities in the This is the last known group photo taken of this year’s Granite Mountain Hotshot southwestern United States at risk of catastrophic Crew. Eric Marsh and Chris MacKenzie are not pictured. wildfire. The Vegetation Management Plan addressed the need for fuels reduction and the adoption of a Wildland Urban Interface Fire Code. The Division then took on the task of creating defensible space on private and City owned property via mechanical treatment carried out by a grant funded Fuels Management Crew of five to ten personnel. On May 15, 2002, the Indian Fire burned 1,300 acres and seven structures adjacent to and within the City of Prescott and forced the evacuation of 2,500 residents. This incident had a profound effect on public opinion surrounding the Fire Department’s new fuels management program and also planted the seed for an expansion of the duties of the Fuels Management Crew. In the spring of 2004, the Fuels Management Crew evolved into Crew 7, a Type 2 Initial Attack Crew, which not only continued the fuels reduction work, but also responded to wildfire and all-risk incidents both regionally and nationally.
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