How Many Lives Does One Man Have? I Always Thought It Was Two. The Second One Began When One Realized They Only Have One Life. Not For Tex Harold Eldon Gilligan (Sonny). This Is His Medical Status Update Post. Tex Being On The Weaver Mountains June 30, 2013 Was Very Important To The Wildland Fire Industry. Too Many Times He Has Been Thanked For His Fire Knowledge & Experience. Let This Post Honor The Fallen By Sharing About "Sonny"... Who Is On A Road To Recovery ...2
2018-11-03 | Arizona Desert Walker Joy A. Collura and contributing other(s)
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Tex Gilligan is the one who told Joy A. Collura to get her camera out of her back pack and snap all these vehicles because he felt it would one day be very important.
Figure 41. Sonny told me to take this photo because he said it will one day be historically important. Source: Joy A. Collura
Joy A. Collura took photo of Blue Ridge Hotshot buggy in the Sesame to Shrine Corridor area.
Figure 42. Sonny told me to take this photo because he said it will one day be historically important. The background is the Sesame to Shrine Corridor areas on June 30, 2013. The home was Bob Kramer's. Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 43. Stern Magazine hiked/interviewed us - https://www.stern.de/norbert-hoefler-3005190.html NORBERT HÖFLER lets us photograph the paper Donut showed him where he was as a lookout Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 44. June 30, 2013 Joy A Collura's Tracfone photo of the Yarnell Hill Fire On The Weavers Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 45. June 30, 2013 Joy A Collura's Tracfone's Photo Properties that shows
Time we were on the Weavers with the GMHS...we had passed the men at this point. Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 46. after the fire when they fenced the DZ (Helms to right) You can see Chutes in this photo and the Sesame to Shrine Corridor Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 47. Deployment Zone (Fenced) Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 48. Boulder Springs Ranch/Helms after the fire (burn scars) Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 49. View of DZ/Helm/Sesame to Shrine Corridor after the fire (burn scars) Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 50. The Old Grader after the fire (burn scars) Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 51. Gordon Acri's land over by the Lone Ocotillo Trail near #11 of Anthony Rose Marker on Arizona State Park Memorial Trail after the fire (burn scars) and I have one from June 30, 2013 afternoon when we were there. Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 53. This was the very first person to alert the hikers something was not right about the YH Fire and this was in front of Joanna Dodders-Nellan's Daily Courier place July 2013 Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 54. We were both very exhausted from helping so many directly and UNITED WAY wanted us to speak at one of their presentations and what the world did not know we had worked 12 to 17 hours shifts seven days a week so to get to this presentation and no monies for gas and we were both very very sore and tired. We helped a lot with United Way that Summer as well. We did spread ourselves thin when I look back but we made it through. Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 55. Tex Harold Eldon Gilligan (Sonny) honoring the 19 --- to get the word out he carved the 19 on the back of his head Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 56. Where the men died and EXACTLY where Sonny and I fought June 30, 2013, early morning is the same GPS coordinates where the men died Source:Joy A. Collura
Figure 57. where the men died and EXACTLY where Sonny and I fought June 30, 2013 early morning is the same GPS coordinates where the men died Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 58. June 30, 2013 what we went through that morning - that box canyon area Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 59. This best represents the lunch spot that day Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 60. vehicles going through the Sesame to Shrine Corridor area Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 61. The Boulder Springs Ranch/Helms the very morning of June 30, 2013 where we were heading to the Weavers to alert prospectors in which is why we were on the Weavers that Friday and Saturday and Sunday... Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 62. just look at these June 30 2013 photos here of the box canyon areas Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 63. The hikers took photos of Wildland Firefighters Source: Joy A. Collura
The hikers took photos of Wildland Firefighters who later (Prescott Yavapai College evacuation phase) Joanna Dodder-Nellans of Prescott Daily Courier stated -did you know, you have the last photos of the GMHS? How does that make you feel?- and we thought how are we suppose to feel...We were on the Weavers to alert prospectors not be one of the last folks to have seen, watch and photograph these men's actions that fateful day. Yet since the YH Fire I have seen so much misinformation and bullying and down right disgusting behaviors shown towards the hikers for trying to fact check this tragedy that we eye-witnessed and it is continually wrong. Why is it so many engines were not even added to this investigation reports but some of the people who were in crucial areas...their family members participated in the fillum. Yet the film never even touch the Helms/Sesame/Shrine areas and that is the most important area to June 30, 2013
Figure 64. Glen Ilah on fire June 30, 2013 5:10pm Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 65. This about 5 to 530pm June 30 2013 the fire behavior Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 66. the old grader on June 30 2013 where Frisby picked up Donut Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 67. June 30 2013 Dozer on the Sesame To Shrine Corridor Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 68. After the YH Fire we buried so many wildlife but here a few scorched yet alive Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 70. I was very much attached to the wildlife to this area and it is still to this day the hardest part in this for me. They were like family to me so to actually bury them after the fire - that was hard for me. Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 71. just look at these June 30 2013 photos here of the box canyon areas Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 72. Tex Harold Eldon Gilligan (Sonny) placed another rock each time we went up there and someone kept knocking down our tribute Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 73. where the men died and EXACTLY where Sonny and I fought June 30, 2013 early morning is the same GPS coordinates where the men died Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 74. Tex Harold Eldon Gilligan (Sonny) placed another rock each time we went up there and someone kept knocking down our tribute Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 75. where the men died and EXACTLY where Sonny and I fought June 30, 2013 early morning is the same GPS coordinates where the men died Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 76. Tex Harold Eldon Gilligan (Sonny) Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 77. November 29th the Helms will present at the college and tell their side of the YH Fire on that weekend Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 78. Source: Joy A. Collura
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Figure 80. Looking down from ridgeline to deployment / fatality site . Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 81. Fire behavior between 4 and 5 PM Sesame Street and Shrine area Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 82. Blow-up fire behavior between 5 and 6 PM in Glen Ilah area Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 83. Fire behavior from off Crestview Sesame Street on far left about 4:30 to 5 PM Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 84. Old grader site Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 74. Bulldozer improving road and / or building dozer line along Sesame Street Source: Joy A. Collura
Figure 74. Fire vehicles traveling along in Sesame Street area Source: Joy A. Collura