![]() The fire moved at about 22 feet per second, which is about 15 miles per hour. ![]() Within 2 days, the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres, destroying homes and building without mercy. Brendan was separated from his team to watch the fire from a distance and report every detail to Marsh. Worried about time, Marsh, the leader of the crew, assigned Brendan the role of being lookout. The hotshots made a line of fire to go against the fire, only to have the line be watered down by a plane. The Yarnell Hill fire started on June 28, 2013, when a lightning storm ignited a fire in the deserts of Phoenix, Arizona. Crew leader Eric Marsh took his chances on this troubled youth, and gave Brendan the chance to become one of the 20 Granite Mountain Hotshots. He attempted to join the Granite Mountain Hotshots the day they had an opening. Brendan tried to get into a hotshot crew, which is a group of 20, type 1 handcrew firefighters who are ready to fight fire at any requested time. ![]() He did everything he could to prepare for fatherhood, despite getting arrested for stealing and continuing to smoke. At 19, just before he graduated high school, he learned he was going to be a father. However, getting into the Granite Mountain Hotshots wasn’t easy at all.īrendan struggled to earn money, selling drugs to support himself. At age 14, Brendan’s mother signed him up for a program for kid’s who might want to become firefighters, and Brendan loved the idea of brotherhood, and tried for the hotshot team years later. Brendan moved with his mother to Prescott, where his drug addiction worsened. ![]() He had no father, and his family was having economic difficulties. Brendan had a rough life, smoking marijuana and skipping school as a skater kid in Southern California. Alongside 19 other brave men, Brendan risked his life fighting fires in Prescott, Arizona, in an elite force named the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Released on October 14, 2017, Only the Brave showcases the life of Brendan McDonough and the real life tragedy of the Yarnell Hill fire. ![]()
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