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wall after re-enacting the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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• 9. LOST LIMB RETURNED AFTER MORE THAN 40 YEARS
• An American doctor flew into Vietnam to return the bones of an arm he amputated from a soldier in 1966.
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• 10. WILD PERFORMANCES AT BET AWARDS
• Erykah Badu brought a white poodle onstage for her act, and Charlie Wilson jammed with Justin Timberlake. No one won the top video of the year award.
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AP News in Brief
Out-of-control Ariz. wildfire overtakes elite firefighting crew, killing 19 as 200 homes burn
• YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) -- An elite crew of firefighters trained to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires was overtaken by an out-of-control blaze in Arizona, killing 19 members as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields.
• It was the most firefighters killed battling a wildfire in the U.S. in decades.
• The lightning-sparked fire, which spread to at least 2,000 acres amid triple-digit temperatures, also destroyed 200 homes and sent hundreds fleeing from Yarnell, a town of about 700 residents about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix. Residents huddled in shelters and bars, watching their homes burn on TV as flames lit up the night sky in the forest above the town.
• The disaster Sunday afternoon all but wiped out the 20-member Hotshot fire crew based in nearby Prescott, leaving the city's fire department reeling.
• "We grieve for the family. We grieve for the department. We grieve for the city," Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said at a news conference Sunday evening. "We're devastated. We just lost 19 of the finest people you'll ever meet."
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Arizona Hotshot fire crew that lost 19 members worked front lines of region's worst fires
• YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) -- The 19 firefighters killed Sunday in Arizona were part of an elite crew known for working on the front lines of region's worst fires, including two this season that came before the team descended on the erratic fire that (Continued on page 20)
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