Patricia Huston, IHC wife, copyright October 2002 Let my skills and hands be firm and quick. To fight the roaring blaze, Please keep me safe and strong The prayer was changed at the end for the memorial service because some of the crew members who died were not married, said Jim. I’ve cried a lot these past few days.”Following is “The Hotshot’s Prayer,” for which Jim contributed some Hotshots lingo. “God is a big part of our family.”As for her prayer receiving national attention, Trish said, “I just feel so humble. Forest Service, Jim said he had worked with the group before and noted that of the 108 Hotshot crews across the country, most cross paths at some time.Trish said her husband loves his job and she supports it, but it is hard when he leaves.“It’s all in God’s hands,” she said. Although the Granite Mountain Hotshots were not under the U.S. Trish said Jim is typically gone 4-1/2 months out of a six-month period.Hotshots are a tight family, she noted. Forest Service Hotshots are considered a national resource, Trish explained, so not only do they fight fires, but they travel all over for other emergencies. His job takes him to fight wildland fires out of state often, she said.The U.S. When she heard about the Hotshots who died in Arizona, Trish said, “I thank God that Jim was home that night.” Jim’s rank as superintendent would be the same as a battalion chief for the U.S. “This is a very dangerous job,” she said. Forest Service Hotshots, having picked that line because he enjoyed being outdoors, said Trish, adding that it is a physically demanding job. Jim is the only one in Trish’s family to work for the U.S. The couple, married for 16 years, have a 4-year-old son, Thomas, and a 5-month-old girl, Hannah. In addition, her brother and an uncle are firefighters.Īlthough she didn’t aspire to be a firefighter, she always knew she wanted to marry one. Her grandfather, Emmett Donohue, who died last year, was a battalion chief in Julian. Ron Serabia of Ramona, retired after 32 years with the California Department of Forestry and Cal Fire, and flying spotter planes from the Air Attack Base in Ramona. I never ever thought it would be needed for something like this.” “It was from my heart and I was proud of my husband. “I didn’t write the prayer to become famous,” she said. She said Jim encouraged her to write a prayer. Trish wrote the prayer in 2002 out of frustration because she could find prayers for emergency responders and structure firefighters but not wildland firefighters. Her blog is, and for a reason that Trish cannot remember, she posted “Apparently someone went looking for a prayer and found (Trish’s) blog,” Jim said. Trish said when she heard the mayor read it, she thought “Are you serious?” The mayor of Prescott read the poem on the news after the crew members’ death, Jim said. The memorial service was not the first time they heard the prayer recited in recent days. “When I saw him reading it.to me, I’m just the little old country girl from Ramona.I could not stop crying,” she said. Trish watched the memorial service on TV and both were emotionally moved by seeing McDonough read the prayer. “It really hit home for us Hotshots while we were sitting at the memorial,” he said. When his wife’s prayer was read, he said the arena was totally silent. Trish’s husband, Jim Huston, superintendent of the Laguna Hotshots, was at the memorial service, one of about 6,000 in attendance, to represent his crew. The prayer was read by the lone survivor of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, Brendan McDonough, at the memorial service on Tuesday in Prescott, Ariz., for the 19 Hotshots who were killed June 30 battling the Yarnell Hill wildfire. “I’m so honored to know that my little prayer I wrote 11 years ago was so important,” said Huston, the wife of a Hotshots firefighter. When Patricia “Trish” Huston of Ramona wrote “The Hotshot’s Prayer” 11 years ago, she had no idea that it would one day serve a need for those grieving the loss of 19 Hotshot crew members in Arizona.
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