06/30/2026
Today we pause to honor the Yarnell 19
19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who were overrun and killed on June 30, 2013, while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Arizona.
We remember them not as a number, but as brothers with names, families, and stories:
Andrew Ashcraft (29)
Robert Caldwell (23)
Travis Carter (31)
Dustin Deford (24)
Christopher MacKenzie (30)
Eric Marsh (43)
Grant McKee (21)
Sean Misner (26)
Scott Norris (28)
Wade Parker (22)
John Percin Jr. (24)
Anthony Rose (23)
Jesse Steed (36)
Joe Thurston (32)
Travis Turbyfill (27)
William Warneke (25)
Clayton Whitted (28)
Kevin Woyjeck (21)
Garret Zuppiger (27)
These Hotshots met a fast‑moving, wind‑driven fire in unforgiving terrain with courage, skill, and quiet resolve, standing between a wildland urban interface and the people they swore to protect.
Their deaths marked the deadliest wildfire incident for firefighters since Griffith Park in 1933, and the greatest line‑of‑duty loss for U.S. firefighters since 9/11.
Brotherhood of 🔥 carries their memory on every dispatch, every ridge line cut, every anchor point built.
We honor their families, their surviving crew, and all who still walk the line with the weight of June 30, 2013 on their shoulders.
To the Yarnell 19, and to all who loved them: We will Never Forget.
We stand together in gratitude, respect, and most of all in brotherhood.
Until we all meet again…
Brotherhood of 🔥