The Real Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew

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 crew.

The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including. 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. Josh brolin as eric marsh the leader of the hotshot crew.

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. 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 helms never saw the granite mountain hotshots on the day they died and never knew the crew was working nearby. 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.

Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived. So what happened that fateful day. 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 yarnell hill fire was one of the deadliest u s. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013. 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. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only.

After burning for two days it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots.