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claimed their lives.
• All but one member of the Prescott-based Hotshot crew died in what was the deadliest wildfire for firefighters in the U.S. in decades.
• Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said the 19, whose names had not been released, were a part of the city's fire department.
• Before the fire near Yarnell, the group -- one of 13 Arizona Hotshot crews -- had been profiled recently in local media as they prepared for this year's fire season and took on a blaze near Prescott earlier this month.
• "The Hot Shots may be fighting the fire with fire," Prescott firefighter and spokesman Wade Ward told the Prescott Daily Courier in an interview last week (http://bit.ly/12fnv6N ). "They may be removing the fuels from the fire, or building a containment line that might be a trigger point for farther down the line."
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Egypt: Protesters storm Cairo headquarters of President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group

• CAIRO (AP) -- Protesters stormed and ransacked the Cairo headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group early Monday, in an attack that could spark more violence as demonstrators gear up for a second day of mass rallies aimed at forcing the Islamist leader from power.
• An Associated Press journalist at the scene said protesters managed to breach the compound's defenses and storm the six-story building, and later carted off furniture, files, rugs, blankets, air conditioning units and portraits of Morsi. One protester emerged with a pistol and handed it over to a policeman outside.
• Footage on local TV networks showed smashed windows, blackened walls and smoke billowing out of the heavily fortified villa. A fire was still raging on one floor hours after the building was stormed. One protester tore down the Muslim Brotherhood sign from the building's front wall, while another hoisted Egypt's red, black and white flag out an upper-story window and waved it in the air in triumph.
• The Brotherhood's headquarters, located in the eastern district of Cairo of Muqatam, had been the scene of clashes since Sunday evening between armed Morsi supporters barricaded inside the building and young protesters pelting it with firebombs and rocks. Security officials said at least eight protesters were killed in the violence. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
• It was not immediately clear whether the Brotherhood supporters holed up inside

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