Cinema knows what firefighters may do but doesn’t always capture what they actually do. In an interview with GQ, FDNY firefighter Gregory Shepherd summarized NBC’s Chicago Fire like this: “ had a good understanding of what we may do, but they added a little too much Hollywood.” The description seems widely applicable. Other times, like when you make a list of the best firefighter movies, you wonder what to actually put in-which movies are actually good, which movies do the genre justice.įor a career field with a glut of TV melodramas, firefighting remains one of those cinematic genres relatively unexploited by filmmakers for such a terrifying, deadly, and real phenomenon, Hollywood has been pretty crap at depicting it. The film’s trailer has already been released, with Sony slated to debut “Only the Brave” in theaters on October 20.Most times when you make a list of the best films of a particular genre, you struggle to decide which movies to leave out-which moves don’t quite make the cut. Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Connelly and Taylor Kitsch are some of the actors starring in the dramatic film coming out in the fall. Woyjeck was one of the youngest of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots crewmembers killed while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire near Prescott, Arizona in June 2013. He started as a fire explorer with Los Angeles County and then went onto various fire academies and training programs before joining an elite crew of wildland firefighters. Woyjeck was also following in his family’s firefighting footsteps.

Woyjeck loved fishing and worked as a deckhand on Long Beach’s fishing charter boats while growing up in Seal Beach. Moviegoers, conversely, will head to the theaters in October to watch “Only the Brave,” a film honoring the Granite Mountain Hotshots who lost their lives fighting a massive Arizona fire.

Anglers will board Enterprise and City of Long Beach, two boats in Long Beach, in September to fish in honor of local, fallen firefighter Kevin Woyjeck.

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