Fernanda Santos
Forfatter af The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting
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Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times.
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The big gap is that the perspective of the controlling political authorities, from the city government of Yarnell (AZ), to the state government of Arizona is not captured in this work. Some blame for the death of these men has to accrue to the fire supervisors, who lost control of a rapidly developing situation, but that there not sufficient command and control resources falls squarely on a state government that was trying to cheap out on public security. Add to that the perversity of residential building in areas that are guaranteed to be burned over, and expectations that said private property will be defended, and the foundations of disaster are established.
The one thing that can't be explained is why the Granite Mountain men chose to leave a situation of relative safety and to put themselves in a death trap. One can only have suspicions, but these were tired men who were trying to do too much, were trying to defend their own home town from the fire, and who had no command backup to override a bad decision. Still, firefighting will always be a dangerous business, and while you have to go out if it's your duty, nothing says you have to come back.… (mere)