1 July 2013, 18:31 Firefighters KIlled: Arizona Wildfire Grows Tweet A wildfire that killed 19 firefighters in an Arizona town has quadrupled in size, to 13 square miles. Arizona State Forestry Division spokesman Mike Reichling said that 18 elite hotshot fire crews were now battling the blaze, approximately 85 miles (137km) northwest of Phoenix, and more are expected to join them. On Sunday, a sudden wind storm turned the forest fire into an out-of-control inferno that trapped and killed 19 people, including members of an elite crew of firefighters trained to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires. It was...
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