( CNN ) -- Hotshot team was `` an elite unit in every sense of that phrase , '' Vice President Joe Biden says . Thousands attend memorial for 19 fallen members of a `` hotshot '' Arizona firefighting team . Firefighters died in an Arizona wildfire June 30 . The blaze is the largest ever recorded by state fire officials and has burned more than 100,000 acres since it began July 29.
Hotshot team was `` an elite unit in every sense of that phrase , '' Vice President Joe Biden says . Thousands attend memorial for 19 fallen members of a `` hotshot '' Arizona firefighting team . Firefighters died in an Arizona wildfire June 30 . The blaze is the largest ever recorded by state fire officials and has burned more than 100,000 acres since it began July 29.