The Granite Mountain Hotshots Survivor

The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013.

The granite mountain hotshots survivor.

As depicted in the movie nineteen of the twenty members of the company died on june 30 2013 while fighting a wildfire and donut is the sole survivor. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. Wildfires since the 1991 east bay hills fire which killed 25 people and the deadliest wildland fire for u s. But images of his daughter crept into his head.

Every one of the granite mountain hotshots except for mcdonough was burned alive sometime after 4 30 p m. 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. Here are glimpses of the men they were and what they leave behind. Brendan mcdonough survived one of the deadliest wildfires in u s.

On june 30 when the yarnell hill fire suddenly whipped 180 degrees around and cut off their escape route from a scrub brush meadow to a nearby ranch. The yarnell hill fire was one of the deadliest u s. Would she grow up to view her dad as a coward. Mcdonough walks back to his seat after speaking at a memorial service for the fallen members of the granite mountain hotshots on july a week after the tragedy wiped out his team.

On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. 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. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames. Granite mountain hotshots lone survivor.

History an inferno near yarnell ariz that killed 19 of his fellow granite mountain hotshots on june 30 2013. From the ny times story 7 2 2013. Only one granite mountain hotshot survived the fire. Before he found the granite mountain hotshots mcdonough was a southern.