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.

On thursday the true story of those men who fought on the front lines premiered across the united states. Only the brave the 2017 drama based on the granite mountain hotshots story. 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. 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.

Four years ago the granite mountain hotshots died battling a horrifying wildfire in yarnell. Like in the movie the true story confirms that only one member of the 20 man granite mountain hotshots crew survived. 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. 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.

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.