Deployment

Key Events: Deployment

Although the four firefighters were able to deploy their shelters, they were unable to protect their airways. They were asphyxiated after inhaling hot gases.
Based on the accounts of the two survivors from the upper deployment site, the victims probably succumbed to the effects of the initial wave of heat.

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