hotshot
Example Sentences
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In her memoir, “Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West,” Ramsey takes us through two years of fighting wilderness fires in the mountains of Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
There are the usual union guys, the Hotshot crews that patrol inside the actual flames.
From Slate • Jul. 26, 2021
The loss of nearly the entire Granite Mountain Hotshot crew reverberated across the country, becoming the deadliest day for firefighters since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2018
Based in Prescott, Arizona, Granite Mountain was one of 107 elite Hotshot crews in the U.S. at the time of the 2013 fire and the only one run by a municipality.
From Washington Times • May 2, 2016
The Yarnell Hill fire killed 19 firefighters – an elite Hotshot crew – in Arizona in 2013.
From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2015
