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(Note: A hotshot crew is a nationally available, intensively trained 20-person hand crew focused primarily on handline construction.) McDonoughthought they were taking a curved, two-track path to get there. I think we got their approval and I think that meant a lot to everybody. Their mission was to "understand what happened as completely as possible" to prevent similar incidents. "The fact that we trained with actual Granite Mountain Hotshots I think was a major major thing," says Brolin, who plays team leader Eric Marsh in the film. [45][46], Richard Brody, in The New Yorker: "The Story That 'Only the Brave' Leaves Out" (October 23, 2017),[47] and Fernanda Santos, in The New York Times: "Money Splits a City Still Mourning Its Firefighters" (June26, 2014)[48] point out numerous cases of firefighters' and their survivors' benefits having been withheld, lawsuits, and acrimony among the local politicians, some citizens, and the survivors of the firefighters who died in the Yarnell Hill Fire that became so extreme that,[47] as Santos observes: "Juliann Ashcraft (wife of Granite Mountain Hotshot, Andrew Ashcraft) decided to leave Prescott altogether to spare her four children the discomfort of whispers and glares. Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park is a state park near Yarnell, Arizona, created to memorialize the nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died there on June 30, 2013, while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire . [3], On June 30, wildland firefighters with the Prescott Fire Department's interagency Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun and killed by the fire. Anthony Rose tried to act cool, but would turn into a proper gentlemen the moment his girlfriend called. Chaos ensued. Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park - Wikipedia This is what started the wildfire two days earlier. In the Only the Brave movie, Miles Teller's character, Brendan McDonough, is a former heroin junkie with a burglary conviction for stealing a GPS. 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 trucks glove compartment, pulled out his 9mmand came close to ending it all. So there was no time to prep, and he said no. His responses have been edited for clarity and length. A key finding in the report: Although much communication occurred among crews throughout the day, few people understood Granite Mountains intentions, movements, and location, once they left the black. That task was shouldered by former Deputy Fire Chief Darrell Willis, who is not represented in the movie.