

I probably would have continued doing drugs, I probably would have ended up in prison or with an overdose - or dead. "The hotshot crew was the best thing that ever happened to me," says the real Brendan McDonough. All of that is in line with the true story. He has a child on the way with his girlfriend and is looking to turn his life around. In the Only the Brave movie, Miles Teller's character, Brendan McDonough, is a former heroin junkie with a burglary conviction for stealing a GPS. These controlled burns create a control line that the advancing fire cannot cross.īefore joining the Granite Mountain Hotshots, had Brendan McDonough really been a druggie petty criminal with a child on the way? A hotshot contains an inferno buy using fire to burn a line through the fire's fuel path.

Normal municipal firefighters put out fires with water, which often includes things like building fires and house fires. A "hotshot" is a firefighter who fights fires with fire instead of water.
