2023 Cond Nast. Market data provided by Factset. It was the deadliest wildfire ever in Arizona;19 men on the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew out of Prescott were killed. Ad Choices, The Familial Furies of Noah Baumbachs The Meyerowitz Stories, Harvey Weinstein and the Illusion of the Vulgar But Passionate Old-Hollywood Studio Boss, The Wildfires Ravaging Northern California. (It But answers aren't expected still for months. By nightfall, the fire was just 15 acres in size, though the town fire department warned residents: "Be on high alert if the wind changes direction.". Nineteen of the crews 20 members deployed their fire shelters a thermal capsule of sorts that is meant to protect them from intense heat, but not direct contact with flames on a brush-choked basin at the foot of a mountain, after leaving a spot up above that the fire had already scorched. Juliann Ashcraft's husband, Andrew, was hired as a member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew as a temporary worker in 2011 and was named rookie of the year. Andrew Ashcraft, 29, of Prescott, Ariz., was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of 19 firefighters who died battling a fire that swept through Yarnell, Ariz . That's why he did what he did, because he want to protect the community where he lived. "Very few people do exactly what they do.". As the Hotshots attacked the blaze from the ground and aircraft dropped retardant from above, Yarnell school board member Eric Lawton was returning home from a trip. Juliann told "Today" that Andrew replied . There was silence for a moment. women who lost their husbands in the disaster. She has anew baby brother, Owen. . By Molly Hennessy-Fiske. dollars in damages.) She would whisper stories to Billie Grace about her daddy long before she could possibly understand. At 7:25 p.m., Colleen grabbed her phone and texted Travis' wife, Stephanie. Juliann Ashcraft, 28, said she will receive workers' compensations and a one-time federal payment of $328,000 in the death of her 29-year-old husband Andrew, who was among the Granite Mountain . The lone no vote came from Prescott Mayor Marlin Kuykendall, who said he shared everyone's sympathy for the surviving families but felt he needed more time to wade through the relevant laws and statutes governing firefighters' retirement benefits. Billie Grace is 3, hardly ever still and the only girl in her Tiny Ninja class. It was 20 percent contained and awind had kicked up. "They loved what they did. members of the company, the sixteen whose characters arent developed in ", "I make my best decisions on my knees, and that's where I made this one," Ward said. It was Eric Marsh, superintendent of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who were based out of Willis' department. "Hey, chief," Marsh said. Last month, at a hearing over extending benefits for Ms. Ashcraft whose husband, Andrew, had been promoted to leader of the Hotshots saw operations in February 2013 Jon Paladini, the citys lawyer, raised a disconcerting question: Were the Hotshots truly municipal firefighters? News. She said Wednesday that she would fight for. passionate marriage with Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), a horse trainer, As they unloaded the truck, Roxanne could smell the fire. Market data provided by Factset. We just lost 19 of the finest people you'll ever meet.'. Relatively little has been known about the Presidents father, whose story reveals a familys fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol. Photograph by Columbia Pictures via Everett, deemed some of its firefighters to be temporary or seasonal,, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. This is the place for a spoiler alert, which, however, wont be a spoiler 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 1990, she married Travis' father and adopted the precocious little boy who, even then, knew what he wanted to be one day. the firefighters. They were heroes in our home, they were heroes in our community," she said. Is humanity doomed? offers a vision of sentimental unity for the common good in a town where understanding of the best way to fight wildfires, his crew must follow "I think I will be down there for a while on this one," 29-year-old Ashcraft had told his wife via text. Thats for your daddy, she told her. Her husband Andrew was 29 years old. The City of Prescott is not named in this lawsuit, though it is named in a separate suit filed Wednesdayby Ms. Ashcraft, Ms. Warneke and Amanda Misner, another widow. He responded that he wished for that too. The fire that swept over the Granite Mountain Hotshots left Juliann Ashcraft a widow. form; as is, the nostalgic virtues of its classical storytelling, with The blaze had ignited two days earlier with a lightning strike along the Date Creek Mountains above Yarnell. Hot shot crews are elite firefighters who often hike for miles into the wilderness with chain saws and backpacks filled with heavy gear to build lines of protection between people and fires. That fire had threatened her own parents' home nearby. become close friends, and Mac matures, largely through Donuts She wants Billie Grace to meet people who did the work her father did. Around the corner, Jennifer Parks of Phoenix was trying to explain to her 6-year-old son, Jake, that this was not where the fallen firefighters were buried. A 20-year-old mother placed her son for adoption. Hot shots involved". 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At 43, the North Carolina native was the oldest member of the Hotshot team and its founder. People keep saying that were in it for the money, but what they dont understand is that we married our husbands when they had nothing, and wed give every penny weve received to have them back, Ms. Warneke said. "Yarnell," her daughter-in-law replied. 'And we'll miss them. Now the fire had shut down that route. Donuts foil is "I vote yes.". They remove brush, trees and anything that might burn in the direction of homes and cities. Andrew Ashcraft texted this photo to his wife, Juliann, just before he perished in a blaze Sunday. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. As depicted in the movie, nineteen of the twenty members of Off in the distance, from behind a ridge line, billowed a sickly, blackish-brown plume spreading like a bruise across the graying sky. "They never think it will happen to them.. "I said to them, 'My husband was a full-time employee, he went to work full-time for you,'" she said, "and their response to me was, 'Perhaps there was a communication issue in your marriage.'". "I have one I want to bring," he told his mom. Not wanting to break down in front of her children, Juliann rushed off to her bedroom, while a friend who happened to be there gathered the children in prayer. When they were found on Sunday, all 19 shelters were deployed but some of the men's bodies were inside their individual shelters, while others were outside - indicating just how suddenly they were overcome by the flames. That Sunday, Granite Mountain Hotshot Brendan McDonough was the eyes for the other 19 assigned to a nearby hillside to provide reports to the crew and keep watch on "trigger points," locations that when reached or crossed by a fire dictate a move to safer ground. Then his cellphone rang. My Daddy Billy? Billie Grace asked. 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They are also receiving free tuition at Arizona universities for their children, in addition to private donations, which have surpassed $4 million, according to a recent tally by the 100 Club, a charity that benefits firefighters and public safety workers. It was about 7 p.m. when a television announcer came on with the report: A Hotshot crew had been overrun near Yarnell. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Juliann Ashcraft said she is desperate for help. Published: 14:36 GMT, 6 August 2013 | Updated: 22:49 GMT, 6 August 2013. She worried how she would react. Juliann Ashcraft, an LDS wife and mother, appeared on the "Today" show and CBS news Tuesday morning to discuss her husband, who has been hailed as a hero. First published on August 5, 2013 / 7:54 PM. "Haven't heard from him all day. Are you there Granite Mountain?". Across from the Granite Mountain crew's headquarters in downtown Prescott, a chain-link fence has become a makeshift shrine. At the Sonoita-Elgin Fire District station, Roxanne got out of the truck and introduced herself to the firefighters. So on a Wednesday,she and Harry went to Costcoto buy fresh fruit. It had been almost four years since her husband, wildland firefighter Billy Warneke, was killed by a raging blaze in Yarnell. He was on a fire in Yarnell, a small town about 30 miles to the south, but there hadn't been a cause for concern. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? benefits had been withheld from Thurstons widow, Marsena, and other Juliann said she sent her husband a photo of their four children, all under 6, swimming. Roxanne had married Billy in 2008, but they had known each other since high school. suspect, was the furthest thing from the filmmakers intentions. Along the way, moods changed and perceptions shifted as the families laid bare their demands for answers about the deaths of a crew skilled on fighting fires in the wild and for fairness over the benefits for the wives and children left behind. But the city insists Ashcraft and 12 others were seasonal employees and are therefore not entitled to the lifetime salaries and health benefits -- worth millions -- given to the six full-time Hotshots. "19 fatalities. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The fire has also destroyed an estimated 200 homes. 6. 'As shocked as I was that my husband went to work and never came home, I'm equally shocked in how the city has treated our family since then,' Mrs Ashcraft, whose youngest child is just 18 months old, told CBS News. Money has nonetheless become a sharp wedge, driving divisions between the City of Prescott and its fire department, among residents, and between some of those residents and the families that persist even as the first anniversary of the tragedy, this coming Monday, draws near. Her husband, Andrew, 29, was a former rookie of the year on the team and the father of four children, all younger than the age of 6. The crew had barely gotten home from a different blaze when word came that the team was needed again. ', Of his team, she added: 'They loved what they did. I feel like we need to do something for these guys, she said. It was someone from Blue Ridge who had picked up the crew's lookout, the only survivor. She was named Billie Grace, for her father. When it came time to vote on the benefits extension, his was the only dissenting vote. You gotta be very physically fit, and you gotta like it, gotta like the hard work.'. 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