Videos of People Driving through California Wildfire is Harrowing to Watch

California is currently experiencing its worst wildfire, with towns getting wiped out one after another. As people evacuate with the wildfire's continued spread, some have taken to social media to post their nightmarish experience of driving through the flames.

In the video below, a family records their drive through a fast-moving fire in Paradise, California, which has decimated the town. The video, which was posted on Facebook by Brynn Parrott Chatfield, has gone viral ever since. The family can be heard praying in the background.

Below is a video posted by Colton Percifield on Instagram, capturing the hellish conditions of the swelling inferno as he made his escape.

 

 

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A post shared by colton Percifield (@cpercifield98) on Nov 8, 2018 at 12:29pm PST

Since it began on Thursday, November 8, the wildfire--which has been officially named Camp Fire--has reportedly consumed 70,000 acres of land and is growing at a rate of almost one acre per second.