Sentences with phrase «granite mountain hotshots»

Outstanding 2012 @CronkiteNews profile of Granite Mountain Hotshots by @CDRadnovich & @CoryGalvan.

You can donate to the families of the heroic Granite Mountain Hotshots here.

At the time, he was finishing school and working for the Granite Mountain Hotshots Crew 7.

The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who tackle wildfires across America, is the sort of enthusiastic chest thumper that you would associate with Peter Berg.

This throwback filmmaker thriller / drama tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the elite of the elite of wildfire containment.

Joseph Kosinski trades slick sci - fi for the moving real - life tale of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as they battle wild fires around Arizona.

Sony Pictures has finally revealed a trailer for a movie called Only the Brave, telling the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

This was formerly titled Granite Mountain and then Granite Mountain Hotshots before they switched to Only the Brave.

The tragic true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots gets a starry and often powerful treatment but suffers from flashes of overly sentimental cliche

«Supe» Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) leads the Granite Mountain Hotshots up the trail at Yarnell Hills in «Only the Brave.»

Based on a magazine article whose title — «No Exit: The True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots» — gives a clue as to where this is heading, Only the Brave starts out as a standard loser - makes - good story.

There's a great moment when the Granite Mountain Hotshots sit on a peak watching a fire burn out on the horizon; as enflamed trees tumble off the side of the mountain they slip through the fog and crash to the ground with a boom, setting off mini mushroom clouds of flame and fire as they do.

«Only The Brave» (Oct. 20): This one almost feels too sad to bear, sort of like «The Perfect Storm» was back when that film came out, but we'll trust a cast that includes Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges and Miles Teller to find a way to inspire us even as the true - life events of Yarnell Hill Fire that claimed the lives of 19 of the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighting team, including Seal Beach native Kevin Woyjeck, unfold on screen.

Soaked in Americana and twangy guitars, Only the Brave provides an uncomplicated, hearty glimpse into the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite firefighting crew that combats the worst forest blazes.

A team of 20 men, wildland firefighters from Arizona proudly answering to the name Granite Mountain Hotshots, are tightly bound together by mutual trust and love of the dangerous job they do.

Josh Brolin stars as the leader of a crew of wildland firefighters called the Granite Mountain Hotshots in «Only the Brave.»

Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Only the Brave, the true - story drama about the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Twelve minutes later, about the time the Granite Mountain hotshots are nearing the floor of the canyon, the boundary reaches the southern end of the fire.

They were all proclaimed heroes, of course, which is almost certainly a word none of the Granite Mountain hotshots would have used to describe themselves.

Only the Brave, based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation.

The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit of firefighters facing a momentous fire.

Based on the GQ article «No Exit,» co-writers Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer deftly adapt the story of Arizona's Granite Mountain Hotshots, the first group of municipal firefighters to achieve elite «Hotshot» status.

Joseph Kosinski's steadily absorbing tribute pulls inspiration from the GQ article by Sean Flynn, dedicating the bulk of its two - hour running time to fleshing out a handful of the 20 - member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a Prescott, Arizona - based squad who faced the ultimate test when they came up against the infamously deadly Yarnell Hill fire in the summer of 2013.

Joseph Kosinski's fact - based account of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of Arizona firefighters whose de facto battlegrounds included the devastating Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013, is so squarely old - fashioned that it's a little jarring to notice that many of the characters have smartphones.

«Only the Brave» is the story of the real - life Prescott, Arizona firefighting unit known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots became the first municipal wildfire - fighting crew in US history, and the first half of Only The Brave details what it took for them to achieve that.

The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.

Duane Steinbrink (Jeff Bridges), the town's fire chief, is the elder statesmen, and Eric repeatedly leans on the man's wisdom and experience, particularly when trying to strategize ways to get his crew's hotshot certification (they eventually become the Granite Mountain Hotshots).

It's the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team dropped in to dig firebreaks and set off controlled burns in the Arizona hills near Prescott.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots (one of about 110 elite units in the nation) are based in Prescott, 30 miles northeast of Yarnell, in the higher - altitude pine forests of the Bradshaw Mountains.

She's talking about the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

All 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were summoned to fight the Yarnell Hill fire.

They were known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, but to us they were sturdy, sweaty, smoke - stained neighbors, fathers, friends, husbands, sons and uncles.