<Ul> <Li> Brendan McDonough, 21 </Li> </Ul> <Li> Brendan McDonough, 21 </Li> <P> On June 30, 19 firefighters with the Prescott Fire Department's interagency Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire . Initial reports indicated that one of the firefighters was not a member of the hotshot crew, but Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the Granite Mountain Hotshots . The firefighters had apparently deployed fire shelters, but not all of the bodies were found inside them . The city of Prescott released the names of the 19 firefighters on July 1 . </P> <P> The lone survivor from the 20 - man crew was 21 - year - old Brendan McDonough . He had been serving as a lookout when the fire threatened to overtake his position . McDonough was hiking out on foot when he was located by Brian Frisby, the Superintendent of the Blue Ridge Hotshots, who was monitoring the radio communications between McDonough and the Granite Mountain IHC Captain . Frisby and McDonough moved the crew's vehicles to a safer location, which they were doing at the time of Granite Mountain crew entrapment . After moving the vehicles, Frisby and other members of the Blue Ridge Hotshots attempted to rescue the entrapped Granite Mountain Hotshots but were forced back by the intense flames and heat of the fire . Driving through the streets of Yarnell, the Blue Ridge Hotshots evacuated several residents who had failed to evacuate earlier . Frisby and his assistant eventually made their way to the entrapment site and were some of the first individuals to find the deployment site and the remains of the Granite Mountain crew . </P>

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