By Jillian Bartsch/El Inde Patrick Nilz typically starts his morning by driving to an open field with his trailer and his crew team. They get to the field early in the morning and look up at the sky. The young, red headed Nilz notices that the sky is clear and decides to let a single…
By Trevor Williamson/El Inde It was a typical warm, spring day in Tucson, with kids playing eighth grade baseball at Flowing Wells Junior High School. For the time being, Marc Acuña would be known as a close friend of head coach Alberto Urquidez, and a recent graduate of Flowing Wells High School. Certain that he…
By Rosa Garcia/El Inde In the middle of the night, Becky Mckiddy-Gydesen walked down a partially dark hallway inside her childhood home. It was an old home made out of wood in a normal neighborhood. The floor made an old creaking sound as she walked through it. Suddenly, an old family picture frame mysteriously flipped…
By Abbie Kosoc/El Inde The fire season back in the year of 2016 was a long one. Thirty year-old Karl Yares and his fellow wildfire responders had been camping out on standby for over a month while awaiting the call to tame a fire. While anxiously expecting calls, Yares and his buddies would pass the…
By Kristopher Yanez/El Inde From the living room of Mariah Haga’s one-bedroom apartment, alongside her mother, her younger brother, and Cooper, her stout black-and-brown basset hound-mix — the choir of voices crescendoed together as they eagerly counted down the remaining seconds of December 31, 2019. Hasty for a new beginning, Haga was “coming in hot.”…
