The Real Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew

Wildfires since the 1991 east bay hills fire which killed 25 people and the deadliest wildland fire for u s.

The real granite mountain hotshots crew.

The helms never saw the granite mountain hotshots on the day they died and never knew the crew was working nearby. The safety zone wasn t planned yarnell hill fire officials had identified. On june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. Josh brolin as eric marsh the leader of the hotshot 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 a type i inter agency hotshot crew in 2008. The granite mountain inter agency hotshot crew successfully went on wildfire responses to perkinsville prescott valley green gate hart thompson ridge doce where again they protected the city prescott west spruce and mount josh fires. After burning for two days it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013.

So what happened that fateful day. The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only. 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.

On june 30 2013 eric marsh ordered his crew the granite mountain interagency hotshots to their deaths on the yarnell hill fire in arizona over the repeated objections of his assistant crew boss captain jesse steed who was burned alive with 17 crewmen under his command because he ultimately followed marsh s orders. 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. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived. The yarnell hill fire was one of the deadliest u s.

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.