Lone Survivor Granite Mountain Hotshots

The granite mountain hotshots an elite firefighting.

Lone survivor granite mountain hotshots.

The lone survivor from the 20 man crew was 21 year old brendan mcdonough. He had been serving. 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. Granite mountain hotshots were ordered to leave their.

Julie jacobson associated press by nigel duara. Why did the granite mountain hotshots leave the safety of a previously burned black area. Lone arizona hotshot survivor recounts tragic fire. Photos of the 19 fallen granite mountain hotshot firefighters and brendan mcdonough the lone survivor in prescott ariz in 2013.

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. More than a year after 19 firefighters perished in the yarnell hill blaze the crew s lone survivor purportedly made a shocking revelation. 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. 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.

On june 30 firefighters with the prescott fire department s interagency called the granite mountain hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. Brendan mcdonough 21 is the lone survivor of the 20 man team that went into the yarnell hill fire as it spread throughout central arizona. Inside the granite mountain hotshots station house in prescott in his first visit only weeks after the catastrophic loss mcdonough felt. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots.