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The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 City of Prescott firefighters, members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The wildfire was fully contained by July 10, 2013. This event resulted in the highest wildland firefighter death toll in the United States since the 1933 Griffith Park Fire killed 29 firefighters, and the highest death toll from any U.S. wildfire since the 1991 East Bay Hills fire killed 25 people. It is the sixth-deadliest American firefighter disaster overall and the deadliest wildfire ever in Arizona. ==Origin and development== At 5:36 p.m. MST (23:36 UTC) on June 28, 2013, lightning ignited a wildfire on BLM lands near Yarnell, Arizona, a town of approximately 700 residents about eighty miles northwest of Phoenix.〔 Strong winds in the area, reaching more than , pushed the fire on June 30 from to over . A long-term drought affecting the area contributed to the fire's rapid spread and erratic behavior, as did temperatures of . Emergency dispatchers were prevented from sending in fire crews immediately by BLM personnel.〔http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/articles/20130705yarnell-fire-time-critical-events.html〕 By July 1 the fire had grown to over . The nearby community of Peeples Valley was evacuated. The fire was still completely uncontrolled, with more than 400 firefighters on the line. On July 2 the fire was estimated at 8 percent containment, but it had not grown in the past 24 hours.〔(Yarnell Hill Fire now 8 percent contained )〕 By the end of the day on July 3, the fire was reportedly 45 percent contained and not growing; 600 firefighters were assigned. Peeples Valley residents were allowed to return to their homes on July 4 and Yarnell residents on July 8.〔(Yarnell Hill Fire, at InciWeb.org, July 7, 2013 )〕 The fire was declared 100 percent contained on July 10.〔("Arizona's Yarnell Hill fire 100 percent contained", from UPI )〕 The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said that 127 buildings in Yarnell and two in Peeples Valley had been destroyed. A "flash point" of the fire was the Glen Ilah neighborhood of Yarnell where fewer than half of the structures were burned.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yarnell Hill Fire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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