on june 30, firefighters with the prescott fire department's interagency granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. initial reports indicated that one of the firefighters was not a member of the hotshot crew, but prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. the firefighters had apparently deployed fire shelters against the burnover, which reached over , but not all of the bodies were found inside them. the city of prescott released the names of the 19 firefighters on july 1.