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20s and '30s. stephanie elam is in prescott, arizona, with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, kate. it's 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 it's 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 to make a break between that burning fires and also to stop and contain those preliminaries they ...

Things that are very, very physically fit. they're very dedicated. great sense of humor for the most part and just the type of people that don't 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 also have a great deal of dedicated people here in the city that despite the grief ta we're going t...

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, i'm reporting to you that 19 firefighters have died in a huge wildfire in arizona. it's in yarnell, arizona. and these are all members of the prescott fire department. and you heard them, you heard the gentleman say there that this was a member of a hotshot team. members of a hotshot team where they go out, it's li...

>> 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 we'll 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 ...

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 we'll 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 person i was with was a trained paramedic. >> reporter: they clear fuels with the equipment and digging ...