PHOTOS: Service for Former Mill Creek Hotshot Chris MacKenzie, One of 19 Killed in Arizona

Hundreds of people came to a public memorial service Saturday at Ramona Bowl for former Mill Creek hotshot, Tahquitz crewman and Hemet High School grad Chris MacKenzie, who was killed June 30  with 18 other firefighters in Arizona.

MacKenzie, who was 30 years old when he died June 30 in the Yarnell Hill Fire northwest of Phoenix, was remembered as an Eagle Scout, an avid outdoorsman who excelled in Bulldog football, and an expert snowboarder known on Big Bear slopes before he became a firefighter.

He worked in the Inland Empire area in the San Bernardino National Forest, earned his way onto a BLM helitack crew, the Mill Creek Hotshots based at Highway 38 and Bryant at the Mentone-Yucaipa border, and an engine crew at Pinyon Station 30 in Riverside County.

He was eventually invited to apply to Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshots in Prescott. Several people in Granite Mountain shirts attended his service July 13, including at least one crew survivor.

The Hot Shot's Prayer was read aloud during MacKenzie's service:

When I am called to duty, Lord
To fight the roaring blaze
Please keep me safe and strong
I may be here for days.

Be with my fellow crew members
As we hike up to the top.
Help us cut enough line
For this blaze to stop.

Let my skills and hands
Be firm and quick.
Let me find those safety zones
As we hit and lick.

For if this day on the line
I should answer death's call
Lord, bless my hot shot crew
My family, one and all.

June 30 on the Yarnell Hill Fire is believed the deadliest incident for wildland firefighters since the Griffith Park Fire in 1933, when 29 were fatally injured.

Mackenzie is survived by his mother Laurie Goralski, father Micheal MacKenzie, brother Aaron MacKenzie, stepmother Janice MacKenzie, nephew Cobain, niece Vaida, stepsisters Janae Gier and Jill Allison, and a large family of uncles, aunts and cousins.