The bodies of 19 firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago went home for the last time in individual white hearses, traveling for 125 miles through Arizona.
The nearly five-hour-long procession began near the state Capitol in Phoenix, went through the town where the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed and ended in the mountain community of Prescott, where they lived and will be laid to rest this week.
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Motorcycle escorts, honor guard members, and firefighting trucks accompanied the 19 hearses along the route.
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Thousands of people from across the state and beyond stood patiently in triple-digit temperatures in Phoenix to pay their respect to the 19 firefighters.
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In both Phoenix and Prescott, the procession drove under giant American flags hoisted above the street with the raised ladders of two firefighter trucks.
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