A group called the Storm King 14 Committee also raised well over $165,000 and erected a statue and individual memorials for the fourteen at Glenwood Springs' Two Rivers Park. In Prineville, Oregon, home base for the Prineville Hotshots, other memorials were erected in the Ochoco Creek Park.
Wildfire Tragedy on Storm King Mountain - The South Canyon Fire Explained
By Steve Nix, About.com
The Alpine Bank of Glenwood Springs, when trying to raise funeral expenses for the firefighter families, collected more than $433,000. This generosity of giving was beyond anything that anyone could have predicted and was distributed to the families.
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- Conditons leading up to the fire...
- Early expeditons to the fire...
- The helispot crews were dispatched...
- Smokejumpers and the Prineville Hotshots take over...
- The fatal, tragic battle begins...
- The Prineville Hotshot and smokejumper deaths...
- The helitack firefighters were found later...
- Storm King Mountain Memorial Trail...
- A plaque about the wildfire at the observation point...
- The memorials were erected...
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