In commemoration of the recent Granite Mountain Hotshots anniversary, Neil and Randee sat down with Yarnell resident and now park ranger Jared Welsh, who recalled memories of the town during the Yarnell Hill Fire of June 2013. Jared is now a park ranger at Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park, and shares those memories and the memory of the 19 lost hotshots on the trail built in their honor.

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