The Real Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew

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.

The real granite mountain hotshots crew.

The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including. Being a hotshot allowed wade to spend time in the great outdoors one of his great passions. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.

Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. It s been four years since arizona s firefighting community lost 19 of its own. The granite mountain hotshots were a crew within the prescott fire department whose mission was to fight wildfires and when not so engaged in work to reduce growth of fire prone vegetation. They became part of the city s snow removal response team along with maintaining 150 acres of open space around goldwater lake.

He loved his job and the amazing men he worked with. Blue ridge hotshot assistant superintendent captain trueheart brown drove the granite mountain chase vehicle himself all the way from where it was parked that morning over to the youth camp at the end of shrine road along with two other as yet unnamed blue ridge hotshots driving the gm crew carriers and of course brendan mcdonough in. Based on the true story of the granite mountain hotshots a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. Wade was honored to be a part of the granite mountain crew.

Originally founded in 2001 as a fuels mitigation crew they were later formed into crew 7 a type ii ia hand crew in 2004 and eventually transitioned into. The year was 2012 granite mountain inter agency hotshot crew continued all of their work within the city with the added responsibilities of eliminating several hazardous trees throughout the city. 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. He was awarded rookie of the year his first season.

Directed by joseph kosinski.