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<p>Hundreds of firefighters and their families filled the Ekalaka High School gymnasium in Ekalaka on Saturday, July 13,  for the memorial service for Dustin DeFord. DeFord was one of 19 Hotshot firefighters killed in the Yarnell Fire in Arizona on June 30. </p>

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Hotshot firefighter, among the 19 killed in Arizona fire, remembered
July 16, 2013 11:25 a.m.

Hotshot firefighter, among the 19 killed in Arizona fire, remembered

EKALAKA — One of the 19 firefighters killed by a wildfire in Arizona has been buried in a cemetery in the tiny eastern Montana town where he spent most of his childhood.