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Arizona

TM99

(8,352 posts)

8. We are devastated as well!

Reply to Wait Wut (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 1, 2013, 03:56 AM

Jul 2013

One of my dearest friends from college works for the BLM with the fire teams. She travels all over the west with fire teams as a manager of the support crews. I have met many of these firefighters and personally knew two of these men from this crew. I am just overwrought with grief.

This guys took amazing risks and always knew the dangers, and yet, this was a sudden and horrific shock.

I, too, have spent most of the day in tears.