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The Daily Courier
March 15, 2018
The dinner was at the Prescott Resort Tuesday night, March 13. This is the fourth year the ... “Travis portrayed the highest degree of professionalism, dedication and care and respect to Brent, the Grand Vista Hotshot crew, their families during this incident,” Sciacca said, reading from the letter. The 12 U.S.Ãâà...
Wildfire Today (blog)
March 15, 2018
That film, of course, is based on the Granite Mountain Hotshots that fought not only wildfires for several years, but also battled with the establishment to finally be certified as the first Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crew managed by a municipal fire department — the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department.
Korea JoongAng Daily
March 8, 2018
The hotshot crew is an elitist group of 20 highly trained wildland firefighters who are ready to battle the serious fires happening nationwide. The main plot line of “Only the Brave” is how the elite firefighters save a small town in Prescott, Arizona from a historic wildfire. “Only the Brave” focuses on the mainÃâà...
durhamregion.com (blog)
March 2, 2018
This group from Prescott, Arizona was the only municipal fire-fighters to be designated the elite status of a type 1 hotshot crew. The movie shows how the fire-fighting group worked hard to achieve their elite status as fire-fighters working together to battle wildfires both locally and abroad. In June 2013 theÃâà...
The Daily Courier
March 2, 2018
Other actors have paid visits to Prescott for movies being filmed in the community, or nearby. DeeDee Howard, an airport employee, said she talked briefly in December 2016 with actor Miles Teller, who played Granite Mountain Hotshot survivor Brendan McDonough in the 2017 film “Only the Brave,” whichÃâà...
Payson Roundup
February 13, 2018
... just left the Payson Hot Shots that fateful 2013 season to serve on the Granite Mountain Hotshots because he fell in love with a Prescott police officer. .... All to be ready for that call to jump into the green buggies of the Forest Service Hotshot crew to wrangle with the beast, with wisdom, skill and humility.
The Daily Courier
February 11, 2018
Five years ago this month, the elite Hotshot crew was gearing up for the coming firefighting season – hiring and training new seasonal recruits. Just months later, 19 members of the crew died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30. Since then, a number of memorialization efforts have been completed,Ãâà...
The Daily Courier
February 7, 2018
Amanda Marsh and the Eric Marsh Foundation for Wildland Firefighters now have their own building at 409 West Goodwin Street in Prescott. ... When the superintendent of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot crew — Eric Marsh — was killed fighting the Yarnell Hill fire on June 30, 2013, his wife,Ãâà...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio
January 30, 2018
Republican Senator Karen Fann of Prescott is sponsoring the bill. She says the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew died while protecting the state, so the state should cover the pensions. "These were employees of the city of Prescott fighting on state land, not a fire within the city of Prescott limits. So that's whyÃâà...
AZFamily
October 19, 2017
Brandon Bunch might have been with the Granite Mountain Hotshots that fateful June day more than four years ago, but just two weeks earlier, he left the hotshots to tend to his pregnant wife and their family. (Source: 3TV/CBS 5 and Black Label Media)Ãâà...
AZCentral.com
July 25, 2017
People stop while hiking up a trail after the dedication ceremony for the Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park south of Yarnell, Nov. 29, 2016. The park honors the 19 firefighters who were killed fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. Plaques, such as this one for Eric Shane Marsh, markÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
July 19, 2017
The first official trailer for the movie "Only the Brave," about the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew that died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, has been released. ... Nineteen members of the elite firefighting team died in the June 2013 wildfire when winds shifted and trapped them in a brush-choked canyon near Prescott.
CNN
June 30, 2017
Driven by fierce winds, the fast-moving fire turned and overran the hotshot crew, authorities said, cutting off their evacuation route, according to a state forestry division .... According to the Granite Mountain Hotshot Memorial website, McKee had aspirations to become a paramedic in the local fire department.
The Daily Courier
December 31, 1999
He was speaking as a volunteer instructor to about 100 students taking Firefighter Training, the most basic course offered by the Arizona Wildfire and Incident Management Academy (AWIMA). The nonprofit academy kicked off its 16th year of operation in Prescott on Saturday, March 10, and wrapped up theÃâà...
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