Christopher Mackenzie Granite Mountain Hotshots

Chris mackenzie has been named as one of the granite mountain hotshotsout of prescott arizona who was killed on june 30 battling a terrifying blaze in yarnell arizona reports the la times.

Christopher mackenzie granite mountain hotshots.

Chris mackenzie 30 grew up in hemet and sought to follow in his dad s footsteps. Snapped by hotshot christopher mackenzie the photograph shows the wildland firefighters forming a human pyramid in front of a giant juniper tree near prescott that the crew had saved during the. Mackenzie then earned his way onto a blm helitack crew the mill creek hotshots based at highway 38 and bryant at the mentone yucaipa border and an engine crew at pinyon station 30 in riverside. The testament of chris s life was not so much in the moments of his journey but more told in the manner in which he lived them.