firefighters across the region including the hotshots from station 7 to prescott, located 30 miles away jumped into action. the hotshots, a team of 20 sent into the heart of the fire, to cut a line on the eastern flank and save other homes. >> they're highly trained, highly skilled, their situational awareness is very high. for this crew, it's very difficult to imagine what happened. >> it was sunday afternoon, the hotshot crew was behind the fire line when like most afternoons a thunderstorm blew in. this one was different, it packed what the fire department calls monsoon winds. and the crew was trapped on the wrong side of them. >> late in the day, a thunderstorm developed over prescott, and the wind shift of 180 degrees on these firefighters and 40 to 50 mile per hour gusts instead of staying out of the way, the fire blew right toward them. >> the hotshots drilled for such a disaster. in this training video, they