GRANITE MOUNTAIN
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- fir… Celý popis ↓
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GRANITE MOUNTAIN
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires.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. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona.
Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's
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