Zuppiger, Garret Joseph Granite Mountain Hotshot, 27, passed from this life on June 30, 2013 with his crew in Yarnell, Arizona. Garret was born December 14, 1985 in Phoenix, Arizona to Suzanne
Garret Zuppiger, a University of Arizona graduate who grew up in the Phoenix area, was one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire. Those who knew Zuppiger, a May 2008 Eller College of Management graduate who lived in Prescott, Ariz., describe him as generous, humble and deeply invested in his work as a firefighter.
Lew Theokas stood at the lectern inside a backcountry church filled to capacity; the wooden pews barely holding the 150 assembled mourners, let alone the ghosts of all those fallen firefighters.
Zuppiger, Garret Joseph Granite Mountain Hotshot, 27, passed from this life on June 30, 2013 with his crew in Yarnell, Arizona. Garret was born December 14, 1985 in Phoenix, Arizona to Suzanne
Garret Zuppiger, a University of Arizona graduate who grew up in the Phoenix area, was one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire. Those who knew Zuppiger, a May 2008 Eller College of Management graduate who lived in Prescott, Ariz., describe him as generous, humble and deeply invested in his work as a firefighter.
Lew Theokas stood at the lectern inside a backcountry church filled to capacity; the wooden pews barely holding the 150 assembled mourners, let alone the ghosts of all those fallen firefighters.
