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Them with any materials available? >> you shouldnt cover any vehicle with window coverings due to the fact that those are combustible materials and those materials itself will start to catch fire just based on the radiated heat. >> and rolling down your windows will only let the elements in faster. so if you chose b, you made the correct decision. keep those windows closed. >> what you want to do is try to stay encapsulated inside that vehicle as best as you possibly can. its imperative that you...

♪ >> get in the car! >> 16-year-old eric marks is watching the inferno from his grandmothers house in middletown -- >> go! >> when suddenly the massive inferno is blocking all exits. >> oh, god. >> so what would you do? youre fleeing a burning town when you suddenly find your exit blocked by flames. should you, a, ditch the car and flee on foot, b, drive around and find a structure to hide inside or c, step on the gas and power through? with the flames rising, you may be tempted to step on it....

The vehicle. >> what i see is the kids, you know, with the car burning, i was shaking with the whole commotion happening. just thinking i would lose them but i got out and ran to them. >> eric and his extended family make it out but his grandmothers house is totally destroyed along with 60% of middletowns other homes. in the end, four firefighters suffered severe burns and four civilians lost their lives. >> it will be the sayreiest thing in my life. it always will be. nothing can top that. >> t...

>> what i see is the kids, you know, with the car burning. i was panicking. i was shaking for the whole commotion that was happening, but just to think that im going to lose them i was feeling numb, but i got out and ran to them. >> eric and his extended family make it out, but his grandmothers house is totally destroyed along with 60% of middletowns other homes. in the end, several firefighters suffered severe burns and four civilians lost their lives. >> i do think its a miracle that we surviv...

From all sides, erics relatives take off in other vehicles while he jumps in the car with his brother. but they run straight into a wall of flames. >> what the [ bleep ]! >> go, go. >> its fire on the highway and youre in the hot seat. later, how would you fare during an attack by an armed spruder? >> it looked like for some reason this is going to be the day that i die. ♪ my hero zero. ♪

>> with choking smoke closing in from all sides, erics relatives takes off in other vehicles while he jumps into a car with with his brother and they run straight into a wall of flames. >> hold on. hold on. >> what the [ bleep ]! >> go. go! >> oh, god. ♪ ♪ >> its fire on the highway, and youre in the hot seat. and later, how would you fare during an attack by an armed intruder? >> it looked like for some reason this is going to be the day that i die. someone sent someone to kill me.

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