New trail near Payson honors Dude Fire victims

  • Source: Payson Roundup - Metered Site
  • Published: 02/04/2021 12:00 AM

Watching the movie “Only the Brave” and reading about the 19 firefighters killed in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire the movie was based on, left Randy Wilfong thinking about six other firefighters. “I remembered visiting the Dude Fire fatality site in the late 1990s,” Wilfong said. “I went back to the site and found it in a state that it had been forgotten. Two signs were there but could not be seen from the Control Road. “The site was in a shambles and I got to feeling bad about it and that nothing was there honoring these six people.” The Dude Fire claimed the lives of a half-dozen firefighters near Bonita Creek Estates on June 26, 1990. And the Payson resident felt sorrow about the lack of recognition five members of the Perryville Fire Crew and their guard who all perished as the fire cut off their escape route and trapped them in Walk Moore Canyon received.



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