The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the twenty …

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