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Windows slightly, then cover them with any materials available? >> you shouldn't 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. it's imperative that you ensure that your windows are fully close closed, that visibility is...

So i told everyone let's go, let's go, let's go. >> go! >> with choking smoke closing in 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. oh, god. 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 to day that i die. someone sent someone to kill me. ♪ ♪ how else do you...

Firestorm, escaping their car just seconds before it's engulfed in flames. turns out their mother is nearby and witnesses their escape from 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...

>> oh, my god. middletown, california, a normally quiet community of 1,300 residents, about 70 miles north of san francisco. that all changed on september 12th 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 rate spread of flame. >> get in the car. >> 16-year-old eric marx was watching the inferno from his grandmother's house in middletown when suddenly -- >> i saw the fire jump t...

Know, with the car burning. i was panicking. i was shaking. for the whole you know commotion that was happening. but just to think of i'm going to lose them, i was feeling numb but i got out and run 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 always will be that nothing can top that. >> to avoid finding yourself in ...