PRESCOTT, Ariz. — As the bodies of 19 firefighters were driven to a morgue for autopsies Monday, grief-stricken family members and residents here mourned the victims of Arizona’s deadliest firefighting disaster, and officials struggled to control a wildfire that one official said is zero percent contained.
City officials said the men, all members of an elite local wildfire fighting unit called the Granite Mountain Hotshots, were preparing to protect a group of homes from flames when the fire exploded in the nearby town of Yarnell, trapping them. They provided no information about the names of the victims or exactly how they died...
