the granite mountain hotshots were a group within the department whose mission was to fight wildfires. founded in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew, it transitioned to a handcrew (type 2 i/a) in 2004, and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. the crew had their own fire station, station 7, where equipment, including two 10-person crew carriers, was housed. the 2017 film "only the brave" was based on the granite mountain hotshots and the yarnell fire.