breaking in on arizona 16. reporter: listen closely to the audio from an unidentified fire fighter standing at a safe distance whose helmet camera caught the crew s last radio transmissions. we ve got fire right over here now. bravo 33, operation, you copying that air to ground? air to ground16, granite mountain, arabia attack, how do you read? is granite mountain in a safe zone? reporter: they weren t in a safe zone. they fell down a ridge and found themselves cut off by fire. in the audio, you hear what appears to be miscommunication between the hot shots and dispatch. . reporter: the hot shot team continues to call for air support. an air tanker to drop fire retardant on their location but it never comes together. their only bet now is to deploy
he was not with the hotshots. but you can hear the final radio transmission just moments before the men died. is granite mountain still in there. operations on air to ground. how do you copy me? i heard sauce running. that s not good. operation s? granite mountain 7? granite mountain 7, sounds like they got some trouble. escape route has been cut off. we re preparing a deployment site. we re burning out around ourselves in the brush. i ll give you a call when we re under the shelters. but minutes pass with no word. did they deploy, did they
the yarnell fire. that was in june. an audio recording has been released of the final moments and is revealing what they faced. elizabeth erwin reports. i was just saying i knew this was coming reporter: seeing the hot shots working together for the last time. i could just feel it, you know. reporter: hearing eric marsh talk to his crew makes what happens next even harder to handle. this is never-before-seen video watching the yarnell hill fire creep closer and closer. breaking in on arizona 16. we are in front of the flaming front. reporter: and hearing the granite mountain hot shots react to the shifts flames. what you re seeing now comes from another firefighter s helmet camera. he was not with the hot shots. but you can hear the final radio transmissions just moments before the men died. is granite mountain still in