Lone Survivor Granite Mountain Hotshots

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.

Lone survivor granite mountain hotshots. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. I know they were asked to come to yarnell if it was possible and eric said no we are going to stay here in the black and for some reason they left. Why did the granite mountain hotshots leave the safety of a previously burned black area. On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire.

A year after the 19 granite mountain hotshots perished in arizona s yarnell hill fire brendan mcdonough sat on the side of the road opened his truck s glove compartment pulled out his 9mm and. Photos of the 19 fallen granite mountain hotshot firefighters and brendan mcdonough the lone survivor in prescott ariz in 2013. The granite mountain hotshots an elite firefighting. Granite mountain hotshots were ordered to leave their.

Inside the granite mountain hotshots station house in prescott in his first visit only weeks after the catastrophic loss mcdonough felt. He had been serving. On june 30 2013 the yarnell hill fire claimed their lives when a firestorm roared through brush 90 miles northwest of phoenix leaving mcdonough the only survivor of the 20 man granite mountain. Nineteen of the 20 members of the granite mountain hotshots an elite crew trained to fight wilderness fires died on june 30 2013 as they battled a fierce fire outside the old gold mining village of yarnell arizona.

Julie jacobson associated press by nigel duara. I have no clue says lone hotshot survivor brendan mcdonough. They were nature conservationists athletes and above all firefighters. Lone arizona hotshot survivor recounts tragic fire.