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While it is no secret that firefighting can be a dangerous profession throughout the many roles associated within the career field. Crews fighting fire from the air were last week reminded of how new technology can add risk to everyone involved with fire suppression operations. The incident in question occurring in Yavapai County, Arizona, a location that is still on the minds of firefighters all across the nation. It was in Yavapai County that on June 30th, 2013, 19 City of Prescott firefighters, members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, made the ultimate sacrifice as they were overrun fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Now, four years later almost to the day, operations during the Goodwin Fire, that started just 14 miles south of Prescott saw 14 firefighting aircraft grounded, unable to launch to assist ground based firefighting operations from the air for over an hour due to a drone being operated illegally in the fire’s airspace. The Goodwin fire began June 24th 2017, and has consumed more than 28,516 acres at the time of this report. The fire is currently scheduled to transition to a Type 4 fire management team on Monday, July 10th 2017.
How is it possible to read this and not understand the severity of the situation ??
A little overdramatic ?????
4 years earlier men lost their lives fighting the same type of fire in the same place..
The men that loose their lives aren't the ones in the air,,
they're the ones on the ground..
The aircraft are supporting / protecting the guys on the ground...
Overdramatic ???
I have a good idea..
Go find the families of the men who lost their lives and tell them the authorities are being
a little overdramatic trying to protect the men fighting these fires on the ground...
I'm sorry,,
There are some I just can't keep quite for...
Teddy