Lone Survivor Granite Mountain Hotshots

Inside the granite mountain hotshots station house in prescott in his first visit only weeks after the catastrophic loss mcdonough felt.

Lone survivor granite mountain hotshots.

More than a year after 19 firefighters perished in the yarnell hill blaze the crew s lone survivor purportedly made a shocking revelation. The granite mountain hotshots an elite firefighting. Photos of the 19 fallen granite mountain hotshot firefighters and brendan mcdonough the lone survivor in prescott ariz in 2013. Granite mountain hotshots were ordered to leave their.

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. Julie jacobson associated press by nigel duara. 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. They were nature conservationists athletes and above all firefighters.

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. The lone survivor from the 20 man crew was 21 year old brendan mcdonough. Prescott fire chief dan fraijo later confirmed that all 19 were from the granite mountain hotshots. Lone arizona hotshot survivor recounts tragic fire.

He had been serving. 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. Why did the granite mountain hotshots leave the safety of a previously burned black area.