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They can stop. hotshots go where equipment can' can't. these elite fire fooitding teams are specially trained to use train usas and pulaskis to brush and cut a fire line in the dirt, a line that could stretch a mile long. and it's their job to hold that line. john seager is a former hotshot. >> when the fire actually burns up to that line, the fire is going to put out embers. and some of those embers actually do cross the line, and the hotshot crew or any of our fire crews will patrols the line and they look for those embers and try to get to them. >> reporter: segar, likens hotshot teams to m...

Firefighters tasked with getting close to the blaze and digging a fire line to help contain the flames. >> people put their selves between the fire and you. >> reporter: arizona jan brewer came to offer her support. >> it's claimed more responders since any disaster since 9/11. this is the honor in the memory of the firefighter its lost that day as they charged into the burning towers. we will remember the brave men of the hot shots. >> reporter: all 19 men deployed their safety shelters as a last ditch effort but they weren't enough. >> they're made to handle intense heat for a short period o...

Two daughters, i thought, i need to do everything that i possibly can to go home and see them. 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 trai...

Firefighters across the region including the hotshots from station 7 to prescott, located 30 miles away jumped into action. the hotshots, a team of 20 sent into the heart of the fire, to cut a line on the eastern flank and save other homes. >> they're highly trained, highly skilled, their situational awareness is very high. for this crew, it's very difficult to imagine what happened. >> it was sunday afternoon, the hotshot crew was behind the fire line when like most afternoons a thunderstorm blew in. this one was different, it packed what the fire department calls monsoon winds. and the crew ...

And put themselves between the fire and you. >> reporter: called hot shots, they were highly trained firefighters. they got close to the blaze, dug a fire line to contain the flames. >> they are the only municipality with a type one hot shot crew in the country. >> reporter: arizona governor, january brewer came to offer her support. >> the yarnell fire claimed more lives of first responders since 9/11. as we honor the firefighters lost that day as they charged into the burning towers, we will remember the brave men of the yarnell mountain hot shots. >> reporter: all 19 deployed their shelters...