- Amanda Marsh, widow of Granite Mountain Hotshot Eric Marsh, supports affected families.
- She founded the Eric Marsh Foundation to aid families of fallen firefighters.
- Marsh urges community caution amid dry conditions and ongoing wildfire threats in the West.
SALT LAKE CITY — The deaths of three wildland firefighters make the anniversary of another fire tragedy even more somber this year.
On June 30, 2013, the Granite Mountain Hotshots became trapped when winds rapidly shifted while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. The crew deployed fire shelters, but only one firefighter survived. Nineteen died.
Eric Marsh, 43, was superintendent of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. More than a decade after his passing, his widow, Amanda Marsh, said the recent burnover incident at the Colorado-Utah border has deeply affected her and others…