
Rated: PG-13 for thematic content, some sexual references, language and drug material.Miles Teller on His New Movie, Superhero Franchises, and Being Likable (or Not) and Susan Christian Goulding contributed to this report. He finished the 9-foot-tall, 1,000-pound wooden memorial engraved with several faces signifying the fallen firefighters. So he started to carve a 50-year-old tree in the backyard of his mother’s Costa Mesa home that he and his son used to climb. McKee decided over the summer that he wanted to honor the Hotshots. “Temperatures exceeded 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit as the fire swept through the site.” “The crew was deploying their fire shelters close together in a small area when the fire overtook them,” the report said. The fast-moving fire overran the crew and cut off their evacuation route, eliminating any chance of them reaching a safety zone, a state forestry division report said. They can never transcend the realism and the effects it has on people’s lives.” “You wonder how much is going to be real and how much they’ll fill in the gaps. “It is Hollywood, they have to dramatize it, as if it wasn’t dramatic enough,” he said. Dave Prietto, who was part a team from the department that went to Arizona after the fire to participate in memorial services, said there is always trepidation among firefighters when such movies are made. It’s a story about camaraderie and brotherhood.”
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”The movie doesn’t dwell on how the men died but how they lived. “I tried to watch as a dad who lost his son, as a fire captain, and as a member of the general public,” he said. Woyjeck said he and his wife attended the screening and thought the movie captured what firefighters do. “Typically, firefighting movies are not close to reality,” said Joe Woyjeck, who recently retired as a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Joe and Anna Woyjeck - whose son Kevin Woyjeck, 21, a Seal Beach native, also died fighting the fire - said they had felt anxious about the film for years, worrying the events of the fire would be sensationalized. “The ending is really harsh.” Sensational Hollywood? “He yells out ‘Drop!’ and they don’t drop anything and they just keep flying over the top of them,” McKee said. McKee said that was the most heartbreaking scene, as Brolin’s character is yelling at the plane while the Hotshots crew is surrounded by flames on three sides and are breaking out their fire shelters, devices that look like foil tents, used by wildland firefighters as a last resort when escape isn’t possible. Warneke said the most difficult part would be watching as a plane flew overhead and did not know the firefighters were below. “I don’t need to see it.”Įfforts to reach MacKenzie’s mother, Laurie Goralski, were unsuccessful.

San Jacinto resident Jack Warneke, Billy Warneke’s grandfather, said he’s unlikely to watch the movie. We have more than our fair share of people willing to serve their country, serve a cause.” “It is interesting the quality of people who are from this valley,” Krupa said. The city has a long history of public service and lost more troops in the War on Terror than any other community. That the Hemet natives would be on a specialized team didn’t surprise Krupa. Meanwhile, Warneke was a former Marine whose wife gave birth to their first child about six months after the tragedy. MacKenzie followed in his father’s footsteps to become a firefighter. MacKenzie, 30, and Warneke, 25, both graduated from Hemet High School but didn’t know each other before they joined the same fire department. Actor Taylor Kitsch portrays MacKenzie, while Ryan Jason Cook plays Warneke. The movie boasts an all-star cast, with Josh Brolin starring as Eric Marsh, leader of the Hotshots, alongside Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly.

“It’s about a group of people that are working for one thing and that one thing is to help other people.” “The film was very well made,” McKee said. Grant Scott McKee, of Costa Mesa, couldn’t help but cry when he joined other parents and first responders at a recent private screening of the film in Tempe, Ariz. His son, Grant Quinn McKee, 21, was one of the Hotshots. REVIEW: ‘Only the Brave’ a mostly winning tribute to Granite Mountain Hotshots.RELATED ARTICLES: How ‘Only the Brave’ stars Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin want to honor fallen firefighters.
