On 28, 2013, lightning touched off an out of control fire on BLM terrains close Yarnell, Arizona, a town of pretty nearly 700 occupants around eighty miles northwest of Phoenix.Strong winds in the region, coming to more than 22 mph (35 km/h) On June 30, 19 firefighters with the Prescott Fire Department's interagency. Granite Mountain Hotshots were attacked and executed by the fire.Initial reports demonstrated that one of the firefighters was not a person from the whiz bunch, yet rather Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo later confirmed that each of the 19 were from the Granite Mountain Hotshots.