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.

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. Four years ago the granite mountain hotshots died battling a horrifying wildfire in yarnell. 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. Only the brave is a 2017 american biographical drama film directed by joseph kosinski and written by ken nolan and eric warren singer based on the gq article no exit by sean flynn.

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. Yarnell each of the 19 crosses marks a spot where one of the granite mountain hotshots died in the. Later that day. Only the brave the 2017 drama based on the granite mountain hotshots story.

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. 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.