For hotshot crews, training key to safe firefighting https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042512_az_hotshots_training/for-hotshot-crews-training-key-safe-firefighting/
Updated: Firefighters working in remote locations to get ahead of the most dangerous sections of fires rely on hard training to stay out of perilous situations. Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, of whom 19 were killed Sunday fighting a wildfire near Yarnell, had never had to use emergency shelters when they received training in 2012.
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