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You have no choice, but to pa c panic. >> middletown, california, a normally quiet community of 1300 residents, about 70 miles north of san francisco. that all changed on september 12, 2015, after months of unusually dry heat an enormous wildfire erupts sending 200-foot high flames racing toward the town. the trees and the topography and the type of material that was burned had not burned in many, many years which contributed to the fast spread of flame. >> get in the car! >> 16-year-old eric marks was watching the inferno from his grandmother's house in middletown when suddenly -- >> i saw th...

♪ >> get in the car! >> 16-year-old eric marks is watching the inferno from his grandmother's house in middletown -- >> go! >> when suddenly the massive inferno is blocking all exits. >> oh, god. >> so what would you do? you're 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 might be tempted to step on it. >> a running vehicle itself when it becomes overcome by a large amount of smoke will eventually...

The vehicle. >> 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 i'm 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 grandmother's house is totally destroyed along with 60% of middletown's other homes. in the end, several firefighters suffered severe burns and four civilians lost their lives. >> i do think it's a miracle that we survived. it was the scariest thing of my life, and it always will be. nothing can top th...

From all sides, eric's relatives take off in other vehicles while he jumps in the car with his brother. but as the brothers approach a nearby highway, they run straight into a wall of flames. >> hold on. hold on. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> go, go. it's fire on the highway and you're 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 day i die. someone sent someone to kill me. wait...is this where you typically shop? you should be getting double miles on every purchase! switch...to the capital one ventu...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> get in the car! >> 16-year-old eric marks is watching the inferno from his grandmother's house in middletown -- >> go! >> when suddenly the massive inferno is blocking all exits. >> oh, god. >> so what would you do? you're 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 riding, you might be tempted to step on it. >> a running vehicle itself when it becomes overcome by a large amount of smoke wil...