The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to review a case involving the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire that devastated a rural Arizona community in 2013 and killed 19 elite firefighters. The decision leaves intact the Arizona Court of Appeals’ ruling seven …
Two Granite Mountain Hotshots’ families are seeking to obtain additional death benefits from a state retirement system for public safety workers, a Prescott official said Tuesday. City spokesman Pete Wertheim said the widows of Andrew Ashcraft and William Warneke filed …
More than 100 damage claims seeking a total of $662 million have been filed by Arizona property owners and relatives of firefighters who died in the Yarnell Hill fire. The Daily Courier reports that 91 property owners filed claims and …
Arizona’s Forestry Division on Thursday contested citations and fines issued by the state’s workplace safety agency for the June deaths of 19 firefighters who were killed battling a wildfire northwest of Phoenix. The appeal with the Arizona Division of Occupational …
Additional claims are being filed against the state, Yavapai County and the city of Prescott in connection with the deadly Yarnell Hill fire last summer. The Daily Courier reports that the additional claims were filed Monday on behalf of owners …
State workplace safety officials probing the deaths of 19 firefighters in an Arizona wildfire were denied access to key witnesses as they worked to determine the tragedy’s cause, according to a letter from a federal agency. Investigators with the Arizona …
The mother of one of 19 wildland firefighters killed in north-central Arizona has filed a $36 million claim against the state, Yavapai County and the city of Prescott, saying their negligence led to the death of her son. An attorney …
A three-month investigation into the June deaths of 19 firefighters killed while battling an Arizona blaze cites poor communication between the men and support staff, and reveals that an airtanker carrying flame retardant was hovering overhead as the firefighters died. …
The Granite Mountain Hotshots battled numerous wildfires across West in recent years, netting reimbursements that paid for most of the city of Prescott’s expenses for maintaining the elite crew which lost all of its members but one in the Yarnell …
Key Arizona legislators are asking President Barack Obama to reconsider his administration’s denial of the state’s request for federal disaster relief for Yarnell for the Yavapai County community’s wildfire damage. The Yarnell Hill Fire that killed 19 members of a …