Four years ago, 19 firefighters died in terror and agony trying to save Yarnell. We were horrified to think of their courage and desperation — huddled in their fire shelters, waiting for the 2,000-degree flames to sweep over them. They remained disciplined and determined to the very end. We attended the funerals. We grieved for their families. And we resolved that they should not have died in vain. We resolved that we would learn the lessons their deaths contained. We resolved to make sure no firefighters ever die because we had not done our best to ensure Payson or Show Low or Pine or Greer or Springerville or Star Valley or Gila, Navajo and Apache counties were ready for the inevitable.