There is no record of what Marsh and Steed discussed on the drive to Yarnell. (In the movie, he receives a phone call at sunrise.) He activated the phone tree and told the crew to meet at Station 7 by 5:30 Sunday morning. that Saturday night instructing the hotshots to report to Yarnell the next morning. There are no accounts of the Marshes fighting the night before the fire. Marsh reacted positively, McDonough said, saying, "Whatever you need to do for your daughter, you go ahead and do that. He became upset after realizing he would never see his daughter enough and he cried as he told Marsh about his dilemma, he writes. In his book, McDonough writes that he asked to talk with Marsh about his future well before the Yarnell fire. Most of these sequences were invented for the movie, or at least re-imagined and moved out of sequence. The next morning, he and Amanda reconcile and later still, he is shown on the drive to Yarnell telling Jesse Steed, the team's captain, that this would be Marsh's last season on the crew. The movie shows the crew working on the Doce Fire - which did happen in real life, shortly before Yarnell - and then shows McDonough being bitten by a rattlesnake. In the movie, he lands in the hospital, where he has to recover. Not quite: Did Brendan McDonough get bitten by a rattlesnake? Later, he is shown stealing a GPS unit from a vehicle in Prescott and then on the phone from jail trying to raise bail money.Īll are events from his life. McDonough first appears in the film sitting on a couch with a buddy and a bong, stoned out of his mind. Marsh's past troubles with substance abuse is referenced, part of an attempt to connect him with McDonough (Teller). The movie pulls no punches in depicting the challenges of at least two crew members. True: Darker sides of Eric Marsh, Brendan McDonough Some among the crew, though, were in their first or second season.Īlmost nobody on the crew had been there the duration of the team's existence. In reality, the turnover on the team, both before and after it was certified as an interagency hotshot crew, was frequent, as is the case on most wildland crews.Ī few team members had been on for many seasons. The film also suggests the hotshots were together for longer than they actually were.
Not quite: How long the firefighters were together
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