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Hotshots are heroes

Summer has officially arrived, and inevitably fire season is already in full swing. Not that I needed confirmation, but for the second year in a row now I’ve encountered a team of firefighters while traveling through Arizona. Last July in Kingman it was the Fort Apache Hotshots that I spotted, staying in the same hotel as we were along Route […]

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Honoring the brave

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The California Firefighters Memorial in Capitol Park consists of three parts — a Memorial Wall and two bronze statues. The wall contains the names of more than 13,000 firefighters who died in the line of duty since 1850, when California became a state. While the site was dedicated in 1995, it wasn’t until April 2002 that the memorial was finally unveiled. […]

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