True Story Of Granite Mountain Hotshots

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.

True story of granite mountain hotshots.

Four years ago the granite mountain hotshots died battling a horrifying wildfire in yarnell. Only the brave the 2017 drama based on the granite mountain hotshots story. Yarnell each of the 19 crosses marks a spot where one of the granite mountain hotshots died in the. 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.

On thursday the true story of those men who fought on the front lines premiered across the united states. 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. Like in the movie the true story confirms that only one member of the 20 man granite mountain hotshots crew survived. 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.

Later that day. 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.