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A gripping first-person profile by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Hearth, which needed the lives of 19 "hotshots" - firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge to become a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when, for the sake of his young child, he made a decision to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Pile Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters located in Prescott, Az. Their innovator, Eric Marsh, is at a anxious crunch after four hotshots remaining the machine, and, perhaps viewing a glimmer of promises in the slim would-be recruit, he needed an opportunity on the unlikely McDonough, and the opportunity paid off. Regardless of the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's strong but adoring encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and determination, going to successfully battle lots of blazes and eventually win the assurance of the men he emerged to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough - "Donut", as he'd been dubbed by his team - offered as lookout, they confronted a freak 3,000-degree inferno in local Yarnell, Az. The relentless firestorm in the end caught his hotshot brothers, tragically getting rid of all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. My Lost Brothers is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's storyline of finding his way out of the deceased end of drugs and finding his purpose among the list of Granite Pile Hotshots and the minute-by-minute profile of the fateful day he lost the very men who possessed saved him. A harrowing and redemptive storyline of resilience in the face of tragedy, My Lost Brothers is also a robust reminder of the heroism of folks who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.
