1. Realizing the Vision of Smart Fire Fighting
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Anthony P. Hamins, Casey Grant, Nelson P. Bryner, and Albert Jones
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Engineering ,Fire fighter ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,Firefighting ,Interagency hotshot crew ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,Education ,Mountainous terrain ,Aeronautics ,Elite ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,computer - Abstract
On Sunday, 30 June 2013, on mountainous terrain near Yarnell Hill, Arizona, a team of fire fighters was racing to escape entrapment from an approaching wildfire. It was a race they would not win. In the days following the event, the shocking news came forth that 19 members of the elite Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew had perished.
- Published
- 2015
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