Natalie begins to accept Brendan and lets him spend time with their daughter. The crew trains hard and become the Granite Mountain Hotshots.When his daughter is born he wants to provide for her, so he interviews with Eric, who hires him despite the reservations of some of the crew. McDonough gets arrested for theft, his mother kicks him out of the house.His ex-girlfriend Natalie is pregnant with his baby, but his irresponsibility disappointed her and they broke up.

Brendan McDonough is addicting to drugs.

Due to more efforts by Eric to pull into the certification, Amanda gets more disappointed how the time commitment already keeps Eric from wanting to start a family.

Eric's wife Amanda suggests he talk to Duane Steinbrink, the city fire chief, to complete Crew 7's certification as wildfire hotshots.

Eric Marsh, supervisor of Fire and Rescue Crew 7 in Prescott, Arizona, receives a call over a wildfire, he made a prediction that the fire will threaten a nearby neighborhood which is ignored.

This story involved with many characters, and the team supervisor Eric Marsh played by Josh Brolin was a major role in the story. He suffered from the great loss because he thought he should be on the list as he considered himself as the least experienced firefighter in the group, and eventually he decided to carry on and tell the story of the heroes he knew as a dedication for the brotherhood and the great sacrifice they made. “It is no longer the guilt of surviving I carried with me, but the honor of knowing my brothers as I know them, as heroes”, McDonough said in the end of the film on the credits. The story is told based on his perspective, who also served as creative consultant for this film. “Doughnut” McDonough played by Miles Teller who was a drug addict before joining the force of Granite Mountain Hotshots, there were twenty elites firefighters of Granite Mountain Hotshots, nineteen of them sacrificed their lives to protect livelihoods, only McDonough survived in the incident. “Only the Brave” （2017）is a drama/disaster film based on a true event, telling of the tragic loss of 19 top-tier firefighters in Arizona's Yarnell Hill blaze in June 2013, the greatest firefighter lose in the U.S.

Is only the brave a true story