WOD
Hotshots 19
6 Rounds:
30 Squats,
19 Power Cleans 135/95,
7 Strict-pull ups,
400 Meter Run.
45 Minute Cap.
Can be done as a team.
On June 20, 2013, nineteen members of Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighting team tragically lost their lives while fighting a fire in Yarnell, Arizona. This is the Hero wod created in their honor.
” … The crew would have been deliberate. The orders provided purpose. The purpose moderated panic. They’d set down their chainsaws and gasoline outside the circle of the safety zone, so that when the fuel exploded it wouldn’t damage their shelters. They’d use flares to set the brush around them on fire, a technique Wag Dodge, a Montana firefighter, famously used to save his own life on a fire that killed 13 smoke jumpers more than 60 years earlier. It would burn the fuel out around the safety zone and keep the flames farther away from the shelters. The clearing was just 60 feet by 60 feet—a three-car garage.
They deployed their shelters in ascending order of experience. The rookies and seasonal hotshots went first; then the squad bosses, making sure their men were in. Before entering his shelter, Steed would have watched Robert, Clayton, and Travis climb into theirs. Eric went last. To protect their heads, they all pointed their feet toward the advancing flames. The grouping was so tight that the shelters touched. They followed orders. No man tried to run or buck the command. Inside the orange glow of their shelters, they would have heard each other’s encouragements over the wind. They would each have had just a few moments to think. They’d wrestle their shelters as they beat the air like wind socks. They’d clench their teeth, desperately pinning the flimsy aluminum tents to the ground as the flames passed over them and the heat became unimaginable. ….” Click HERE for the full article written by Kyle Dickman from Outside Magazine, September 17, 2013.
Attention: Happy 4th of July! There is only 1 wod at 9 a.m. and it is Hotshots 19. Be early as we are starting right on time and the Beer Mile will follow right after!
