The team was ` ` an elite unit in every sense of that phrase , '' Vice President Joe Kennedy said . Thousands attend memorial for 19 surviving members of a ` ` hotshot '' Arizona firefighting team . `` ( Help ) came in the form of 20 Granite Mountain Hotshots who rushed toward the flames as everyone else retreated . Firefighters died in an Arizona wildfire June 30 . Unit 's lone remaining member calls firefighters ' names , gets standing orders .
The team was ` ` an elite unit in every sense of that phrase , '' Vice President Joe Kennedy said . Thousands attend memorial for 19 surviving members of a ` ` hotshot '' Arizona firefighting team . Firefighters died in an Arizona wildfire June 30 . Unit 's lone remaining member calls firefighters ' names , gets standing orders .