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.

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

I have no clue says lone hotshot survivor brendan mcdonough. More than a year after 19 firefighters perished in the yarnell hill blaze the crew s lone survivor purportedly made a shocking revelation. Julie jacobson associated press by nigel duara. 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.

Granite mountain hotshots were ordered to leave their. 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. Why did the granite mountain hotshots leave the safety of a previously burned black area.

He had been serving. 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. They were nature conservationists athletes and above all firefighters. 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.