Yarnell Hill Fire (Tenderfoot Fire) 2016

Once again, Yarnell is under the threat of fire! We watch from our house as the smoke spreads and the helicopter and planes fly back and forth to battle the fire. Although we are miles away, wildfires are always a threat!
Between the awesome firefighters and the wind, they were able to keep the fire away from Yarnell!

 Doug drives through Yarnell every day back and forth to work. He was able to get this picture on his way home the afternoon the fire started.

*From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 City of Prescott firefighters, members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The wildfire was fully contained by July 10, 2013.

This event resulted in the highest wildland firefighter death toll in the United States since the 1933 Griffith Park Fire killed 29 firefighters, and the highest death toll from any U.S. wildfire since the 1991 East Bay Hills fire killed 25 people. It is the sixth-deadliest American firefighter disaster overall and the deadliest wildfire ever in Arizona.^[2]