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CBS 5 News Special: Memorial Service for Fallen Firefighters
On Tuesday, all 19 firefighters will be honored at a memorial. The Granite Mountain Hotshots survivor, Brendan McDonough is slated to read the Hotshot’s prayer during the service at Tim’s Toyota Center in Prescott Valley. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend, as well as former Arizona governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
The public will be able to watch the service outside the center on two jumbotrons. CBS 5 News will have live coverage on-air and online beginning at 10 a.m.
View the Program For the Memorial Service (.pdf)
Previous coverage on FireCritic.com here, here, and here
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This photo combination made with undated family photos provided via the City of Prescott, Ariz. shows the 19 firefighters killed battling an out-of-control wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz., on June 30, 2013. Top row, from left: Andrew Sterling Ashcraft, Robert Caldwell, Travis Carter, Dustin James DeFord, Chris Mackenzie, Eric Shane Marsh, and Grant Quinn McKee. Second row, from left: Sean Misner, Scott Daniel Norris, Wade Scott Parker, John Joseph Percin Jr., Anthony Michael Rose, Jesse James Steed, and Joe Thurston. Bottom row, from left: Travis Turbyfill, William Howard “Billy” Warneke, Clayton Thomas Whitted, Kevin Woyjeck, and Garret Zuppiger. (AP Photo/Family Photos via City of Prescott)
