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Public memorial service honoring one of the 19 elite firefighters killed in that horrific fire in arizona. 30-year-old actor for mackenzie died while battling a massive wildfire outside of your now. there's a look at the service and the servicemen and women standing in attention. they said he had a gift for making everybody stay a little bit brighter. >> and exuberance for life, if you want to call it that, taken any moment and turning it into a good thing. >> he never gave up, he never gave in, not once did he quit. >> see you on the fire line, brother. martha: he works the san bernardino fir...

Yesterday we had a storm come in and it was very, very violent with the winds and it tore a lot of what was there down, but we saw people coming back and putting things back, carol. >> i know there was a touching moment on wednesday when the vehicles used by those firefighters, they were driven back home. >> reporter: yes. they are called buggies, and they have two of them. ten men to each one. those buggies came into town and people were moved to run out and salute them, but the moment of silence didn't just happen here, it happened down at the fire line. take a look at what happened. >> we d...

19 bottles of water at the memorial. maybe it's 19 roses together. children drawing pictures. all throughout town, you can see that everyone is banding together to show these firefighters what they meant to them. >> reporter: the fourth of july. a time for remembering american heroes. and in prescott, it's a tribute to 19 young men that's bringing this town closer. >> coming together, i think, is the only way. if anybody is lost in the tragedy on their own, the whole community will suffer. >> reporter: in an impromptu show of respect, civilians and firefighters lined the streets as the two gra...

Understand. that as far as today, we're talking three to five more additional rain into the southeast. unbelievable. the flooding threats are high, farther to the north, more of a scattered storm pattern. but really in the southeast is where we're having the toughest time. flooding concerns will remain. and this pattern is going to stick around for really the next several days. out to the west coast, we talked about this being a tale of two coasts, the west coast dealing with that heat. 15 to 20 degrees above normal. unfortunately, as you think about a holiday, more people outside, this is goi...

So that's really what kept me in the shelter. >> 19 firefighters will never see their families again. incredibly tough training for one of the toughest jobs on earth. we want to take a look now at the hotshots, the people who risk their lives to help us all. more now from randi kaye. >> reporter: when hotshots get the call, they head to the center of a blazing wildfire. an inferno that often times only they can stop. hotshots go where equipment can't. these elite firefighting teams are specially trained to use train saws to clear brush and cut a fire line through the dirt. a line that could st...