Why Did The Granite Mountain Hotshots Leave The Black
Ultimately the movie sticks to the true story here.
Why did the granite mountain hotshots leave the black. The yarnell hill fire was a wildfire near yarnell arizona ignited by dry lightning on june 28 2013 on june 30 it overran and killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshots just one of the hotshots on the crew survived he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them. Soon after that they headed downhill into a narrow box canyon that was smothered with dense 10 foot high chaparral. A view of a memorial for the 19 granite mountain hotshots killed in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013. This photo was taken on friday oct.
The largest remaining question about the yarnell hill fire that killed 19 members of the granite mountain hotshot crew in 2013 south of prescott arizona is why the crew left the safety of a. The last fire supervisors knew the granite mountain hotshots were in the black. The granite mountain hotshots was the only hotshot crew in the country that was part of a structural fire department in this case the prescott fire department. With all the weather and fire behavior factors in alignment the granite mountain hot shots then left their safety zone the black about 4 30.
This photo was taken on friday oct. At 4 04 pm the granite mountain hotshots were still on the ridge above glen ilah. No one knows why the hotshots decided to leave the safety of a black area and descend into the canyon and the film doesn t try to guess. The couple hunkered down inside their house as flames.
It is still not know how far up the chain of command the decision making went that day with regards to granite mountain leaving the safe black. The video shows the granite mountain hotshots observing the fire from the safety of a ridge before they descended into a much more hazardous area. Yarnell lee and diane helm own a ranch 600 yards from where 19 granite mountain hotshots died in the yarnell hill fire on june 30 2013.