U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in an Arizona wildfire were "an elite unit in every sense of that phrase."
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Ten years later, the story of Yarnell is one of loss but also survival. A Navajo heirloom emerging intact from the rubble. A burned, wounded cat seeking comfort from a stranger. And a firefighter, the lone survivor of the hotshots crew, trying to rebuild a life and answer a question that haunts him: “Why didn’t I die that day?”