the team includes 15 of those elite hotshot wildfire crews. this comes less than a year after a wildfire near yarnell killed all but one member of the granite mountain hot shots. two cities that attract a lot of visitors during the summer season which unofficially kicks off during this memorial weekend. heavy smoke may be drifting north into flagstaff. that's where ana cabrera is standing by live for us. >> reporter: right now 300 people are evacuated but some 3,000 are on standby just in case the fire continues to really roar. you can see the winds are now picking up. you see that huge plume of smoke that is spawning to the north. the winds are blowing it right into flagstaff. like you said, 5,000 acres are burning through really heavy fuel. you can see all of the forested