Story Highlights Team of investigators will look Arizona fire with an eye toward life-saving'Time to step back and ask how we can avoid this'19 firefighters died in Sunday's Yarnell Hill fire On the third day after lightning struck a mountainside forest near Glenwood Springs, Colo., a slow-burning fire became an inferno. A crew of 20 elite fire fighters, known as "hotshots" from Prinevile, Ore., rushed to the scene at Storm King Mountain. On July 6, 1994, as the team fought the fire on the slope, the wind shifted. Flames jumped the fire line and raced up the mountainside, trapping and killing 14 firefighters, including nine hotshots. The tragedy...
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