The Granite Mountain Hotshots Movie

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Josh brolin as eric marsh the leader of the hotshot crew. Two widows of the granite mountain hotshots say they helped with the creation of the movie and they feel that it portrays their husbands and the elite team s story. They trained under the supervision of eric marsh depicted by josh brolin in the movie. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.

The movie is a stirring dramatization directed by joseph kosinski based on a nonfiction account in gq by sean flynn and co produced by condé nast entertainment of the real life activities of. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching. The granite mountain hotshots formed in 2002 as a group within the prescott volunteer fire department. Outside magazine released the documentary film the granite mountain hotshots and the yarnell hill fire august 12 2013 in which friends relatives colleagues including brendan mcdonough the lone survivor of the granite mountain hotshots speak out.

The real granite mountain hotshots and others are played one for one by actors including. They first operated as a fuels mitigation crew until they transitioned to a handcrew in 2004. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. Miles teller as brendan mcdonough the only.

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 their memory. It perfectly illustrates the kind of teamwork and camaraderie that informed the legendary squad of hotshots working to save in this case their hometown from utter destruction by fire.