The Granite Mountain Hotshots And The Yarnell Hill Fire Documentary

On june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots.

The granite mountain hotshots and the yarnell hill fire documentary. The true story of the yarnell hill fire 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. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by lightning on june 28 2013. On june 28 2013 dry lightning ignited a wildfire on bureau of land management lands near yarnell ariz a town of approximately 700 residents just northwest of phoenix two days of burning led to strong winds that reached more than 22 mph and pushed the fire from 300 acres to over 2 000 acres. In this exclusive documentary friends family and the lone survivor of the granite mountain hotshots speak out.

The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013. Huge questions remain about the. A long term drought affecting the area contributed to the fire s rapid spread and. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the prescott fire department whose mission was to fight wildfires.

The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. 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. The granite mountain hotshots and the yarnell hill fire outside. The deaths of the prineville hotshots on the south.

Cariso hotshots on the loop fire of 1966 the mormon lake hotshots on the battlement creek fire of 1976 and now the granite mountain hotshots on the yarnell hill fire of 2013. Founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew it transitioned to a handcrew in 2004 and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. Once is an anomaly twice is a coincidence and three times is a pattern. On june 30 2013 19 firefighters from granite mountain hotshots crew were killed battling a wildfire near yarnell arizona.