Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.

When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the twenty men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action. An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family, crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them. The...

"Cyrus was just a baby when he was left on the steps of the Northfield firehouse. But growing up surrounded by heroes didn't make Cyrus brave like his firefighter, football star dad or the firefighters who helped raise him. Instead, he's as skittish as the stray dog who parks his head on Cyrus's shoulder and earns the perfect name -- Parker. Cyrus's dad's strict no-pet rule means Parker can't stay. With football tryouts around the corner, a dog would...