True Story Of Granite Mountain Hotshots

On the morning of june 30 all 20 members of prescott arizona s granite mountain hotshots headed into the mountains to protect the small town of yarnell from an advancing blaze.

True story of granite mountain hotshots.

Like in the movie the true story confirms that only one member of the 20 man granite mountain hotshots crew survived. Later that day. Four years ago the granite mountain hotshots died battling a horrifying wildfire in yarnell. Only the brave tells the story of the granite mountain hotshots a highly trained team of wildland firefighters that lost 19 of its 20 members when they became entrapped in the yarnell hill blaze.

21 year old brendan mcdonough nicknamed donut and played by miles teller in the movie had been serving as a fire and weather lookout when the fire encroached on his position and threatened to overtake it. Richard brody on the new movie only the brave about the granite mountain hotshots a real life unit of heroic arizona firefighters and what the film doesn t include. On thursday the true story of those men who fought on the front lines premiered across the united states. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013 on june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots just one of the hotshots on the crew survived he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them.

History of the granite mountain hotshots about two thirds of the film isn t about the yarnell hill fire at all but an origin story for the granite mountain hotshots. The film tells the story of the granite mountain hotshots an elite crew of firefighters from prescott arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the yarnell hill fire in june 2013 and is dedicated to.