30th, heading to battle the
yarnell fire in arizona.
how did they end up like this?
19 flags and helmets in
memorial?
>> granite mountain, worked
their way down the slope,
through the boulders and brush
until the flaming front cut them
off from their escape route.
>> the state's official
investigation is at best
inconclusive.
they had four options to escape
the rapidly approaching
wildfire.
the one they chose proved
deadly.
why they chose it remains a
mystery.
>> that information is with
them, not with us.
everybody we interviewed, and
the information we gathered, it
says exactly why they made that
move.
that decision-making process
went with those 19 men.
>> the report blames an
unexpected shift in winds and
unusually combustible fuel in an
area that hadn't burned in
nearly half a century.
once they were trapped in this
brush-filled valley, they had
two minutes to deploy their fire
shelters as the flames