June 26,1990, the Dude Fire rages across Zane Gray country in the towering ponderosa forests below the Mogollon Rim in C | dG1fWU0tUVNyUWI5SWM
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00:00Five prisoners and a corrections worker killed trying to save part of Arizona.
00:06Nobody's perfect.
00:07We all make mistakes.
00:08We were pained for our mistakes.
00:11Yeah, we've got Perryville crew has deployed shelters on the dozer line.
00:18What crew is that?
00:21Perryville.
00:22Sander Bachman should not have been on that fire.
00:26It's the nation's worst forest firefighting tragedy in recent history.
00:30He goes, yeah, you're right, let's let's deploy, deploy, deploy.
00:39He didn't come out with us.
00:41It's the best program that ever happened for me or for anybody else that I've seen.
00:46We got everything we got.
00:47It was hand-me-down.
00:48It wasn't brand new.
00:54And tonight that firefighter is clinging to life.
00:57A minute or two minutes later, we had fire coming over the top of us.
01:07So Navajo's got to save your lives.
01:13Absolutely.
01:15Bottom line is we didn't make a change.
01:18What were you thinking when you were running?
01:23I didn't want to die.
01:3418 years in prison and this is the only time, this is the only program, this is the only
01:38time I've ever done anything constructive.