The Granite City Hotshots

It s been four years since arizona s firefighting community lost 19 of its own.

The granite city hotshots. 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. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including. All 19 firefighters killed yesterday in an uncontrollable arizona wildfire were members of the granite mountain hotshots from the prescott arizona fire department.

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. A year after the 19 granite mountain hotshots perished in arizona s yarnell hill fire brendan mcdonough sat on the side of the road opened his truck s glove compartment pulled out his 9mm and. 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 a type i inter agency hotshot crew in 2008. In january 2013 chris started his third season as a lead crew member with the granite mountain hotshots out of the prescott city fire department in arizona.

Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew type 2 i a in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. In 2010 chris was invited by one of his former captains to apply to the granite mountain hotshots. 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. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only.