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20s and 30s. stephanie elam is in prescott, arizona, with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, kate. its a devastating loss for a small town where everyone knows their labor and who lives here. when you lose 19 men being fathers, sons, some just about to become fathers its a huge loss. we an watching as people have been blinging out water, flowers, wreaths, anything to remember their hometown heroes who died. the 19 men work at hot shots, they go to the fire lines, they get the closest to try ...

Things that are very, very physically fit. theyre very dedicated. great sense of humor for the most part and just the type of people that dont mind going out into the forest and hauling 50 or 60, 70 pounds of gear, walking five or six miles, establishing fire lines or burning out areas trying to protect people. these are just outstanding people well conditioned athletic young men. >> how do you go about dealing with this loss and at the same time, you still have to fight this fire? >> well, we a...

That was art morrison from the arizona state forestry division there. and you can see he is very emotional. he is on the phone with me. he said he became a firefighter in the 1960s and has never seen anything like this. sadly, as we are on the air tonight here at 11:41 eastern time, im reporting to you that 19 firefighters have died in a huge wildfire in arizona. its in yarnell, arizona. and these are all members of the prescott fire department. and you heard them, you heard the gentleman say th...

>> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and well hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and b...

Who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and well hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the perso...

They dont happen very often. a couple hundred over the last several years. they had this somewhat arbitrary cutoff of 12 years old, saying above that they can be on the adult list and below that, i think there is not enough data for people under the age of 12. >> sanjay appreciate that. thanks. we wish sarah and her family the best. >> you can find her story at cnn.com. more breaking news tonight. fire out west and one fire is growing larger, moving in two directions at once. well take you to ...

Cnn.com. more breaking news tonight. we are live out west. fire out west and one fire is growing larger, moving in two directions at once. well take you to the fire lines. >> also, later, ariel castro pleading not guilty for holding three women captive for years. its hard to imagine what the victims are going through. well talk to a therapist that helped treat jaycee dugard after her captivity. well talk to her ahead.

Lists? is there is a good reason behind that? >> ideally, what you try to do is create situations where the people that need the transplant the most are matched up with the people that will benefit the most. that may sound rather obvious will you not always the sickest people in general, the people that will benefit the most in these transplants. with kids and these transplants, they are not that common. a couple hundred over the last couple years. a cutoff after 12 years old, saying above that ...

>> all you entrepreneurs out there, you heard it, get started. thanks so much. m great to talk to you. we have a tragic twist to the deadly building collapse in philadelphia. what has happened to the man who inspected the building right before the fatal accident. in just the last 12 hours, the number of homes destroyed in the colorado wildfires has tripled as the state gets ready to put out new evacuation orders, we will go live to the fire lines next. as we get a series of new fox polls t...

You the updates on bad weather. destructive wildfires. zero containment in colorado. its one of the worst in the states history. we have new pictures from behind the fire lines. potential juror in the george zimmerman murder trial. not hiding what she thinks. youll hear what the woman said about trayvon martin and why george zimmerman should, quote, go home. its all up next on "news nation ". [ male announcer ] heres a word you should keep in mind. unbiased. some brokerage firms are. but way...