Granite Mountain

A first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona’s disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire—the inspiration for the major motion picture Only the Brave . Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the u