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Hotshots

Zion, Ill., firefighters display an American flag over the funeral home during a memorial ceremony for Prescott Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighter Anthony Rose at Zion, Ill. on Thursday. Rose and eighteen others were killed while fighting a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona on June 30. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Gilbert R. Boucher II)

A cyclone of fire
roared straight out of hell;
God bless those brave hotshots
who died at Yarnell.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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