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Hotshot widow Amanda Misner, center, receives a congratulatory hug Friday afternoon, after the Prescott Board of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System voted unanimously that she and fellow widow Roxanne Warneke should receive survivor retirement benefits.

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One question appeared to get an especially affirmative response from the veteran wildland firefighters who testified in the three-day hearing on whether the widows of two fallen Granite Mountain Hotshots should receive survivor benefits.Over and over, the attorneys on both sides asked the question: Were the seasonal Hotshots on the Granite Mountain crew regularly assigned to "hazardous duty"?

January 31, 2015