#Yarnell Arizona

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OnThisDay 10 years ago, a rogue lightning strike set in motion a series of events near Yarnell, Arizona, that would ultimately end in tragedy. Learn more from @NOAANCEI

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Traffic on Interstate 17 in Arizona. Thunderstorm over Yarnell. The lights of Crown King up on the mountains.

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Yarnell, Arizona

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GRANDMA'S HOUSE - Old-timey couch, window curtains, lamp, & wallpaper in a 1963 house in Yarnell, Arizona. Grandma might be hosting Thanksgiving here this year. 11-2-23

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Ok I think I see what happened with this very apples-to-oranges list (some fires are the deadliest in a state, some the costliest, some the most total acreage burned in a year); I think they based it on an article titled "17 Largest Wildfires in US History" that turns out to be "just some of the worst wildfires in US history."

(Metric guide: an acre is about 4K square meters; a ⚽️ field is 1.75 acres)

As of Jan 2025, here's the Largest Fires in US History [1][2][3]

Great Fire of 1910, Idaho & Montana ~3 million acres.

Great Fire of 1898, Carolinas ~3 million.

Great Michigan Fire, 1871 ~2.5 million.

Great Fire, Oregon, 1845 ~1.5 million.

Taylor Complex, 2004, Alaska ~1.3 million.

Peshtigo Fire, 1871, Wisconsin – 1.25-1.5 million.

Ruby Fire, 1940, Alaska ~1.25 million.

Kateel River, No. 5, 1957, Alaska ~1.1 million.

Smokehouse Creek Fire, 2024, Texas ~1.06 million.

August Complex, 2020, California ~1.03 million.

Thumb Fire, 1881, Michigan ~1 million.

Unalakleet, 1941, Alaska ~1 million.

Dixie Fire, 2021, California – 963,309.

East Amarillo Complex, 2006, Texas – 907,245.

Little Black River Fire, 1950, Alaska – 892,900.

Lime Complex, 2022, Alaska – 892,900.

Maine/Miramichi Fire, 1825 – 832,000 (across the border in New Brunswick it burned 3.8 trillion acres.)

Solstice Complex, 2004, Alaska – 812,771.

Holanada Creek Fire, 1969, Alaska – 803,470.

Northwest Oklahoma Complex, 2017 – 779,292.

Wildfire is complicated. Smaller fires like the recent Lahaina and LA fires can strike developed areas and be painfully costly in human lives and/or property, while the 1 million acre August Complex was largely a fire management success story. Nevertheless, stats from state agencies and news reports show an unmistakeable trend:

Over the past decade, I've watched almost every fire < 200K acres drop off CALFire's "largest fires in state history" list. Half occurred in the past five years, all but one this century.

The Oregonian's map and table of Oregon's 20 largest fires are all above 100K acres, 13 of them this century.

Colorado's official state fire page hasn't been updated since 2021, but has boxes saying things like "11 of the top 20 largest fires have occurred in the past five years" and "4 out of 5 of the largest fires have happened in the past 3 years."

I couldn't find a definitive list for Arizona other than Wikipedia's, but it tallies with news on some of the big ones: the state's largest ten are above 100K acres, and 17 out of the largest 20 are this century. The largest was the 2011 Wallow Fire at 540K acres. The Yarnell Fire on the map was infamous for killing 19 firefighters.

All this has happened as western states and firefighting allies like Canada, Australia and Mexico have ramped up firefighting prevention, resources, budgets, methods, equipment and personnel, offering mutual aid and pooling knowledge.

After moving to California in 96, I watched the state waging an all-out war: burying power lines, clearing brush, removing invasive grasses, training the public on everything from tow chains to Christmas lights, cutting fire breaks and positioning fire crews in advance on red flag days, using controversial yet popular-among-prisoners hand crews, acquiring and training pilots with night vision and infrared sensors, leasing an ever-more-extensive fleet of water and fire retardant dropping helicopters and planes, now up to the size of Chinooks and DC-10s.

None of which can hold fires driven by hurricane-force winds tossing embers miles ahead.

Not that I let power companies off the hook for the slow pace of burying powerlines, although rewiring a state larger than Britain is not trivial. Budgets limit resources, and counties are still learning when to call and how to coordinate mutual aid. It's heartbreaking to see other parts of the country drying out and starting the same learning curve on a 10 to 20 year lag. Poor Lahaina.

An additional problem is that much of the western US is federal land, outside state jurisdiction. The American Forestry Service barely has the budget for forest management (including fire mitigation), but they've had to divert more and more of it to firefighting. The last thing they need is more cuts or pay freezes.

The key takeaway, though, is that in the past decade, fire records have been falling like burning timber— largest, earliest, latest, most — from Arizona to Alaska, despite more and better equipment, fuel removal, and mutual aid.

Largest wildfires in the history of the United States

Largest wildfires in the history of the United States, measured by the number of acres burned. It highlights major wildfire events across different states. Also indicates states affected by these fires, with notable concentrations in the western and central regions, while emphasizing the severe human and environmental toll these wildfires have caused.

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Events 6.30 (after 1930)

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country. 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. 1960 – Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). 1963 – Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. 1973 – Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation. 1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. 1989 – A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. 1990 – East and West Germany merge their economies. 1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board. 2007 – A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before. 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. 2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. 2013 – Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. 2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths. 2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). 2021 – The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30. 2023 – A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

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Em 2013, o grupo de bombeiros Granite Mountain Hotshots é chamado para controlar um grande incêndio na cidade de Prescott, no Arizona, Estados Unidos. O desastre fica conhecido como Yarnell Hill Wildfire e os bombeiros arriscam suas vidas quando ficam presos numa mudança brusca de vento.

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Email not displaying correctly? View the web version   Subscribe Classifieds Obituaries E-Edition   Good morning RJ, We start today in Northern Arizona, as ten years after the Yarnell Hill Fire, where 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots perished, a mural honoring their lives was unveiled at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce. Arizona artist Katie Von Kral created the mural to honor…

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MCE Best of 2017: Honorable Mention

Movies: Only The Brave

Year four of my annual salute to a movie TV show and song, while not making the list it did make a significant impact for the year on  another level.

And this list kicks off with a personal connection to what someone i know all to well actually does for a living.

Prescott Arizona is located right on the edge of a vast forest. The area is susceptible to wildfires like nobody business.

The defense of the town comes from an outside city limits fire crew known as The Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Enter young Brendan McDonough a burnout on his last bridges, who arrives on the scene with only a determination to prove himself and redeem his young daughter.

As that crew of 20 would go through the fire seasons gaining experience and popularity among the veteran hotshot teams who always go on the front lines of defense. 

But, their bravery came at a valiant sacrifice when all but McDonough were killed in Yarnell Hills when the flames would surround them while trying to escape.

A truer than true story that is magnificently brought to life via great turns from Miles Teller, Josh Brolin and Jennifer Connely

This hit me personally as my brother in Redding actually goes into the same storm that Josh Brolin describes in vivid detail. While no fire bears were near him, his daily life makes me ponder how many other heroes there are that defend places and small towns that need it the most.

Those Hotshots gave their lives for a purpose and that truly makes them heroes.

Sum 22: The firefighters of the wild get their story told first hand via Only The Brave’s excellent style and heroic overtones.

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Random spontaneous road trips are becoming my favorite pastime. Especially with my favorite person🖤 #arizona #roadtrips #superior #prescott #yarnell #cooliage #boyfriend #hesmine #pasttime #spontaneous https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsq1JEJ_3i/?igshid=1cl3mp3v8lvoo

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Today we returned to Baghdad with our trailer to retrieve something we found off the side of a trail and to see how well the trailer could handle being pulled through said trails. That didn’t go so well, snapped the hitch clean off it’s frame and in true @roadkillshow fashion our first attempt at rigging it back together failed almost immediately. Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of our second attempt because I was too concerned with making it so we could get the damn thing home but what we ended up doing was we took the braces from the trailer jack and used them to brace the hitch back to the frame. All that said it was gorgeous coming down through Yarnell and still a fun time spent with my dad, @amandakavechuco, & my niece. #BecauseRoadkill #FlexSealYota #Bagdad #Yarnell #Arizona #ExploreArizona

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'Only the Brave' Celebrates the Lives of Those who Risk Everything to Keep Others Safe

‘Only the Brave’ Celebrates the Lives of Those who Risk Everything to Keep Others Safe

While watching “Only the Brave,” I kept thinking of what Mike Kellerman said in an episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street:” “Fire is a living thing. It eats, it breathes air, it can be killed. Something about that power draws people in.” This dialogue played in my head while Josh Brolin stares at a wildfire off in the distance, wondering which direction it will spread in. From this, we can…

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This painting was done in tribute to the Granite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in the Yarnell Hill Wildfire on June 30, 2013. 19 of the 20 members died that day.  One of my friends is from Prescott and news of the tragedy really struck a chord in my circle of Arizona friends, so it affected me too; I painted this as the firefighters were being carried to the cemetery for burial. This is one of the most emotional pieces I’ve ever done and if anyone knows who has the original I would be gratified to connect with them, for no other reason than to finally find out where it ended up. The original painting was acrylic on a piece of MDF that was about 12″x24″:

Ashcraft, Andrew – Age: 29

Caldwell, Robert – Age: 23

Carter, Travis – Age: 31

Deford, Dustin – Age: 24

MacKenzie, Christopher – Age: 30

Marsh, Eric – Age: 43

McKee, Grant – Age: 21

Misner, Sean – Age: 26

Norris, Scott – Age: 28

Parker, Wade – Age: 22

Percin, John – Age: 24

Rose, Anthony – Age: 23

Steed, Jesse – Age: 36

Thurston, Joe – Age: 32

Turbyfill, Travis – Age: 27

Warneke, William – Age: 25

Whitted, Clayton – Age: 28

Woyjeck, Kevin – Age: 21

Zuppiger, Garret – Age: 27

I’m very grateful for these firefighters who laid down their lives to protect others; I pray that their families are comforted and that all of their needs will be met.

Yarnell Hill Fire

Original Niume post; Niume is closing down so I will post my art and photography pieces here. This painting was done in tribute to the Granite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in the Yarnell Hill Wildfire on June 30, 2013. 

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PLYMOUTH ROCK? - House for sale in Yarnell, Arizona.  The seller included multiple photos of big rocks on the property.  Because?  They are filled with gold or precious metals?  They have historical significance?  They are alien space pods?  Maybe the seller was stoned or wanted to leave a boulder impression? 9-14-21