fire. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, carol. 7,500 plus acres are burning. this fire largely uncontained with hundreds of homes still threatened. you see crews gearing up to head back to the fire lines. we ll take you there and give you a look at some of the challenges and conditions facing firefighters today. captain: this is a tip. bellman: thanks, captain obvious. captain: and here s a tip. when you save money on hotel rooms, it s just like saving money on anything else that costs money. like shoes, textiles, foreign investments, spatulas, bounty hunters, javelins.
investigation. that it was probably started by a person. it s a big fire. it s a bit of a beast. reporter: a beast at the beginning of a fire season that authorities fear could be long and destructive. you re looking at the prescott hotshots as they gear up to go out to the fire lines. we understand there are nearly 20 hotshot teams here on these fire lines. these are guys and gals that are doing some of the hardest, dirtiest, most physical work on the fire. very dangerous work. it was right here in arizona just about a year ago, carol, where we lost those 19 hotshot firefighters. that s in the back of all these guys minds. i talked to the prescott team this morning and i asked them about that specifically. he said, you know, this is our job and that s what we re focused on this morning. such brave men and women. many thanks. it is cooler in arizona today so that will make the firefighting a little bit easier.
making huge dumps of water, fire retardant, and they re pucksing their fire lines on the burnout operation. so basically, controlled burns where they re able to sort of get ahead of the fire, put fires there, get the fuel out of the way. and that s going to be the key as this firefight continues, wolf. ana cabrera, thanks very much. just ahead, incredible pictures of a mountain climber s escape from death. but first, this impact your world. he has photographed presidents, heads of state and celebrities, but marco grobb s passion lies with a different subject matter, land mine victims. land mines you find pretty much everywhere where a conflict ends there is not much i can do as a photographer, really. but the one thingy do is give those people affected a face and a name. reporter: grobb travels to
pre-evacuation warnings. here s what the incident commander said about those warnings just moments ago. you should have your stuff ready to go in case we do have an anomaly today. have some embers cross that, re-establish, and have to pull a full evacuation into those folks. pre-evacuation is just what it says. be ready. more than 4800 acres have burned and authorities began with the fire at 0% containment. miguel almaguer is in flagstaff, arizona and it sounds like the strategy for today is obvious. just get some kind of containment. yes. certainly, chris, with this fire burning erratically in multiple directions, the big push will be to get some containment to build fire lines around those rural communities that are threatened. as you know, 300 homes are threatened by this wildfire and 3,000 people have been told you may have to leave at a moment s notice and the goal today is to build the containment lines and the issue will be those winds
partially standing gas lines spewing. fire lines down. we ve had some casualties. it s too early to confirm how many. when i came up through town, you can see there were people everywhere. people trying to help them. they set up a triage center across from city hall. we do have some folks that ha have that were killed in the storm. we have an air evac station here across from city hall. they have several helicopter he flying people to local hospitals. right now we re trying to do a search and rescue and see how many people we do have injured. wait till the sun comes up in