The crew begins a controlled burn to contain the fire, but an air tanker mistakes it for a secondary fire and extinguishes it. Walking into the fire zone, Eric tells Brendan that he will help Brendan secure a transfer so he can spend more time with his family. Driving to the area, Eric tells his second-in-command Jesse that he will be stepping down and will recommend Jesse as superintendent.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots are called to the Yarnell Hill Fire, 30 Miles from Prescott. Eric has a heartfelt talk with Duane, then returns home and tells Amanda he's ready to start a family. Eric erupts, suggesting Brendan’s criminal past makes a transfer nearly impossible and that he will return to drugs without the purpose being a hotshot provides.Įric and Amanda argue about Eric's attitude towards Brendan's sense of priorities, and his reluctance to start a family. Brendan later approaches Eric about transferring to a different station within the department, joining a structural firefighting crew. While he recovers in the hospital, his mother suggests that Brendan reconsider his dangerous career for his daughter's sake. The crew fights several fires, including saving a historic juniper tree, but Brendan is bitten by a rattlesnake while walking a fire line. Natalie begins to accept Brendan and lets him spend time with their daughter. They pass and become the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

The crew trains hard and is finally deployed to a wildfire for evaluation. When his daughter is born he wants to provide for her, so he interviews with Eric, who hires him despite the reservations of some of the crew. When he gets arrested for larceny, his mother kicks him out of the house.

His ex-girlfriend Natalie is pregnant with his baby, but she feels he is too irresponsible to be in her life. This frustrates Amanda, who resents how the time commitment already keeps Eric from wanting to start a family.īrendan McDonough is unemployed, listless, and abuses drugs. Duane warns that the crew will now have to commit to a longer working season. The fire behaves as Eric anticipated, and the neighborhood is destroyed.Įric's wife Amanda suggests he talk to Duane Steinbrink, the city fire chief, to complete Crew 7's certification as wildfire hotshots. Due to Crew 7's status as municipal firefighters, Eric's prediction that the fire will threaten a nearby neighborhood is ignored by a hotshot crew from California. The film is dedicated to the Granite Mountain Hotshots and their families.Įric Marsh, superintendent of Fire and Rescue Crew 7 in Prescott, Arizona, receives a call to the Cave Creek Complex Wildfire. It received positive reviews, with praise for the cast and the film's touching tribute to its subjects. Only the Brave was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 20, 2017. Principal photography began in New Mexico in June 2016. It features an ensemble cast, including Josh Brolin, James Badge Dale, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Alex Russell, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Hardy, Thad Luckinbill, Geoff Stults, Scott Haze, Andie MacDowell, and Jennifer Connelly. The film tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013, and is dedicated to their memory. Only the Brave is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article 'No Exit' by Sean Flynn.

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