The Granite Mountain Hotshots Wiki

A trail follows the last steps of the hotshots down to the fatality site where they made their last stand.

The granite mountain hotshots wiki. The park located at the site where the firefighters died is accessed by a. Juliann ashcraft said she found out her firefighter husband andrew was among the dead by watching. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. The granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires.

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. A three mile 4 8 km path leads from a parking area on highway 89 up to an observation deck. 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. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.

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. Granite mountain hotshots memorial state park was created to honor the hotshots. The crew had their own fire station station 7 where equipment including two 10 person crew carriers was housed. 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.