As recovery efforts continue in the wake of the Dragon Bravo Fire, the Arizona Daily Sun spoke to local, state and federal fire personnel who assisted with the firefighting effort to learn more about their experiences -- and what lessons they took away from their time there.

Will Giannola took a Flagstaff Fire Department engine and crew up to the fire shortly after it began its rapid run across the North Rim and the Kaibab Plateau. A month after returning, he said the Dragon Bravo Fire was one of the most extreme he’s seen in over a decade of wildland firefighting. Copy article link

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