A terrifying video a man said he recorded as he escaped a fast-moving fire in northern California on Saturday captures the intensity of the conflagration.
The man, listed as MulletFive on his YouTube account, says he recorded the video as he drove away from his home in Anderson Springs around 7:30 p.m. He posted it to YouTube on Sunday. Here is the direct link to the video
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The video shows an apocalyptic landscape with an eerie red sky and brightly burning trees and telephone poles on either side of the road. A constant rain of red-hot embers flies across the road. In comments posted with the video, MulletFive said the fire had reached his house suddenly and without warning.
"We got no phone call, there were no sirens, no ash falling, no smoke, no air support. As far as we knew the fire was still far away," he wrote.
"But it turns out it was very close to our home, there was simply not enough firefighters to tend to our area. The lesson: evacuate EARLY! It is hard to do when you live in a rural area and wildfires are just a part of life, you get used to seeing smoke way up in the sky occasionally. I don't think we will make this mistake again!" he said.