Yarnell Hill fire
http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001
http://www.azcentral.com/video/2339390143001
Live video of procession 19 firefighters
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Mike McDonald
PCS Member
For some reason I couldn't get the video to come up? I saw bits of it on CNN yesterday. Does anyone one know who furnished the (19) white hearses and what the logo was on each door? THX-MM
It was a live feed of the 125 mile procession.
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Mike McDonald
PCS Member
I would still be interesting to know who assembled the 19 white hearses? Quite a logistical feat in itself. MM
The white hearse is actually pretty common here locally. I doubt it was very hard.
I spotted One Buick/Chevy hearse and I believe the rest were caddy's.
Our local Electric utility is covering all expenses per reports.
Curious question from me would be how to keep proper id of each casket? It's obviously a logistical challenge for those running the operation to make sure each family eventually receives their lost.
Kent Dorsey
PCS Member / Funeral Director
I am glad someone planned this out well and used hearses... I can't remember the situation, but in the last year there was a national news story with five or so vehicles and a van or two was in the mix...
Tony Rose coming home here
Hotshot Tony Rose is actually form my town, Beach Park,Il. His family still resides here. His urn accompanied by family is coming home to Waukegan airport tomorrow night at 2030 hours on a specially appropriated 737. Congdon Funeral Home in Zion,Il. Is handling things on this end. Memorial service for all of his old skate park buddies tonight in Winthrop Harbor. Several departments sending brush trucks. Huge coming home fire service presence planned for tomorrow including FFs and EMS from all over ILlinois and Wisconsin, among others. Full honors with color guards, bagpipes, crossed streams crash trucks, etc planned. I am privileged to be a part of the planning group. Quad One departments will escort limousine and family with urn to funeral home. Wake with emergency services walk through on Thursday. Hundreds expected Wednesday and Thursday.
Hotshot Tony Rose is actually form my town, Beach Park,Il. His family still resides here. His urn accompanied by family is coming home to Waukegan airport tomorrow night at 2030 hours on a specially appropriated 737. Congdon Funeral Home in Zion,Il. Is handling things on this end. Memorial service for all of his old skate park buddies tonight in Winthrop Harbor. Several departments sending brush trucks. Huge coming home fire service presence planned for tomorrow including FFs and EMS from all over ILlinois and Wisconsin, among others. Full honors with color guards, bagpipes, crossed streams crash trucks, etc planned. I am privileged to be a part of the planning group. Quad One departments will escort limousine and family with urn to funeral home. Wake with emergency services walk through on Thursday. Hundreds expected Wednesday and Thursday.
I happened to be at a funeral yesterday (showing), and was poking around in the demo casket room and noticed quite a few had a small glass tube that screwed into the end of the casket. I didn't ask anyone about it, but the available literature suggested it was for an informational scroll, in case the casket was exhumed, it would make it easier to identify without having to open it up. Not exactly sure what situation would warrant such a device (landslide? Sinkhole?), but I suppose you could put the information in there if you thought there was a chance they would be mixed up.
Kent Dorsey
PCS Member / Funeral Director
Steve Palmer reports...
Hearse originations...
Whitney-Murphy FH (2)
Messinger FH (2)
Bunker FH (2)
Hanson FH (2)
Desert Rose FH (3)
Hampton FH
Westcott FH (Steve's firm)
J.Warren FH
Heritage Memory Chapel
Wyman Cremation and Burial
Mountain View FH
Al Moore-Grimshaw
Menke FH
The families of the victims were restless to receive their heroes back for their final services. They agreed to have all of the firefighters released at one time, a week later, and they did not want to have vans doing the transportation. It was decided to use all white hearses. Butch and Cathy Hampton of the Hampton FH of Prescott, who handled all 19 families, got on the phone and secured these donated vehicles.
The hearses met in the garage of the Maricopa Medical Examiner's Office. Each hearse had a magnet logo of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots affixed on the driver and passenger doors. American flags were affixed on standards on the windows. Each hearse bore the name of its firefighter and escort, specially selected, rode in each hearse. The 250 mile journey took the firefighters from Phoenix through Yarnell and to Prescott Valley to the Yavapai County Medical Examiners Office.
The cortege was led b fire trucks, ambulances, a support van and a spare hearse if it was needed.
Hearse originations...
Whitney-Murphy FH (2)
Messinger FH (2)
Bunker FH (2)
Hanson FH (2)
Desert Rose FH (3)
Hampton FH
Westcott FH (Steve's firm)
J.Warren FH
Heritage Memory Chapel
Wyman Cremation and Burial
Mountain View FH
Al Moore-Grimshaw
Menke FH
The families of the victims were restless to receive their heroes back for their final services. They agreed to have all of the firefighters released at one time, a week later, and they did not want to have vans doing the transportation. It was decided to use all white hearses. Butch and Cathy Hampton of the Hampton FH of Prescott, who handled all 19 families, got on the phone and secured these donated vehicles.
The hearses met in the garage of the Maricopa Medical Examiner's Office. Each hearse had a magnet logo of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots affixed on the driver and passenger doors. American flags were affixed on standards on the windows. Each hearse bore the name of its firefighter and escort, specially selected, rode in each hearse. The 250 mile journey took the firefighters from Phoenix through Yarnell and to Prescott Valley to the Yavapai County Medical Examiners Office.
The cortege was led b fire trucks, ambulances, a support van and a spare hearse if it was needed.
J. Warren FH (Cole & Maud Coolidge Chapel) was the only one in the cortege that had a new coach. See their 2013 Cadillac XTS Heritage hearse at about 2:12 in the video clip.
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Kent Dorsey
PCS Member / Funeral Director
Cathy Hampton adds to the story in this month's ICCFA magazine:
She is referring to the hearse procession.
The heat was treacherous, and a few of our motorcycle officers from Prescott, who accompanied our hearses as escorts, suffered from the heat the pavement was radiating. At one point, we had to stop to allow them to cool down.
Our hearse, a 1996 Cadillac, decided to have both the air conditioning and the water pump quit. The vehicle had been functioning flawlessly and was well maintained, so this came as a surprise. In any case, all the planning that had been done to deal with potential problems saved the day.
Unnoticed by the public - despite the photographers and helicopters - one of the extra hearses pulled up next to ours and Ron Adair and his crew pulled up in their Suburban for a discrete transfer of our precious cargo to a backup hearse.
The only thing reported in the press was that a hearse had been seen with its hood raised.
She is referring to the hearse procession.
The heat was treacherous, and a few of our motorcycle officers from Prescott, who accompanied our hearses as escorts, suffered from the heat the pavement was radiating. At one point, we had to stop to allow them to cool down.
Our hearse, a 1996 Cadillac, decided to have both the air conditioning and the water pump quit. The vehicle had been functioning flawlessly and was well maintained, so this came as a surprise. In any case, all the planning that had been done to deal with potential problems saved the day.
Unnoticed by the public - despite the photographers and helicopters - one of the extra hearses pulled up next to ours and Ron Adair and his crew pulled up in their Suburban for a discrete transfer of our precious cargo to a backup hearse.
The only thing reported in the press was that a hearse had been seen with its hood raised.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
good planing always saves the day.