PHOENIX – The public is invited to the annual remembrance event for the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died while battling Arizona’s Yarnell Hill Fire 12 years ago.
The Yarnell Area Resource Group and Arizona State Parks and Trails are putting on the event at 4 p.m. Monday. It will take place at the Yarnell Hill Fire Memorial on State Route 89 in Yarnell, about 33 miles southwest of Prescott.
Nineteen firefighters with the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots crew lost their lives on June 30, 2013, when flames from the fast-moving Yarnell Fire trapped them in a canyon…