The Real Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew

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.

The real granite mountain hotshots crew. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013. 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. The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including.

So what happened that fateful day. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived. On june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. The safety zone wasn t planned yarnell hill fire officials had identified.

The granite mountain hotshots were a crew within the prescott fire department whose mission was to fight wildfires and when not so engaged in work to reduce growth of fire prone vegetation. After burning for two days it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots. 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. Wildfires since the 1991 east bay hills fire which killed 25 people and the deadliest wildland fire for u s.

The yarnell hill fire was one of the deadliest u s. Granite mountain interagency hotshots crew andrew ashcraft 29 andrew sterling ashcraft was born on february 15 1984 to parents deborah pfingston and thomas ashcraft in orange california. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. The helms never saw the granite mountain hotshots on the day they died and never knew the crew was working nearby.

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.