American flags representing the 19 firefighters who perished battling a fast-moving wildfire are displayed on a fence at a makeshift memorial in Prescott, Arizona July 1, 2013. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) (JOSHUA LOTT) An elite squad of 19 Arizona firemen killed in the worst U.S. wildland firefighting tragedy in 80 years apparently was outflanked and engulfed by wind-whipped flames in seconds, before some could scramble into cocoon-like personal shelters. Details of Sunday's deaths of all but one member of the specially trained, 20-man Granite Mountain Hotshots were vague a day after they perished in a blaze that destroyed scores of homes and forced the evacuation of two towns in central Arizona....
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