Fallen Ariz. hotshot's child born

TUCSON, Ariz. — She has her daddy's dimples and brown hair – and lots of it – and the same floppy right ear.

Billie Grace Warneke, whose firefighter father William Warneke died with 18 others in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, was born at 5:58 a.m. on Thursday in Tucson.

She is 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and is named after her dad.

Her mother, Roxanne Warneke, 25, was admitted to a Tucson hospital early Wednesday. After 22½ hours of labor, she took her daughter into her arms for the first time.

"She looks like Billy," said Roxanne's mother, Maria Wilcox. Her father, Brook, had cut the umbilical cord.

"He's the proudest grandpa ever," Warneke said.

Warneke was newly pregnant when the Granite Mountain hotshots were trapped and killed by a raging wildfire in Prescott. Her husband didn't know that his child was a girl, though he had helped picked the name Grace if she were.

So far Billie Grace is a contented baby; she's cried a little and slept a lot. Both she and her mom are doing fine.

When the hotshots died, three were about to become fathers for the first time.

Sean Jaxon Herbert Misner, the son of firefighter Sean Misner and his wife, Amanda, was the first to arrive, on Aug. 22. Willow Mae Rose, the daughter of firefighter Anthony Rose and his fiancee, Tiffany Hettrick, was born Oct. 10. Both were born in Prescott Valley.