The Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew: 19 firefighters were killed on Sunday. Photo: Reuters With no way out, the 19 elite firefighters did what they were trained to do when trapped by a raging fire: they unfurled their foil-lined, heat-resistant tarps and rushed to cover themselves on the ground. But that last, desperate line of defence couldn't save the "Hotshot" crew from the flames that swept over them in the small town of Yarnell in Arizona. The glue holding the layers of the tarp together begins to come apart at about 500 degrees, well above the 300 degrees that would almost immediately kill a person. All 19 men died, marking the biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire...
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