Since Yarnell, any measurable changes in the systems of wildland firefighting have been hard to grasp. Teams still train, operate and dispatch in the same ways. Equipment, from the national fleet of flying tankers down to the standard-issue foil fire shelters that could not save the Granite Mountain team from the fire, remains largely the same.
Officials at fires elsewhere are likely to offer the same answer. Although they will not forget the loss of the hotshot crew, they don’t make a direct connection between last year’s deaths and any actions this year.
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