Inside The Inferno: Incredible Video Shows One Man's Fiery View As He Leaves Home Amid Deadly California Wildfires

Terrifying situation in California, fires raging, over 23,000 displaced. Watch one man’s escape as he films and drives through a hellish nightmare.

• As officials placed the number of Northern Californians at 23,000 Monday, one motorist’s heart-thumping first person video of his escape from the blaze is showing the world just how terrifying the situation has become
• Mark Ghilarducci, director of Office of Emergency Services, said Monday that about 13,000 have been driven from their homes by a wildfire 20 miles north of the famed Napa Valley
• He says about 10,000 people have been displaced from a second blaze less than 200 miles away in the Sierra Nevada
• The Valley Fire in Lake County had consumed 61,000 acres as of Monday while the Butte Fire in the Sierra Nevada had grown to 70,000 acres

• As state officials placed the number of people displaced by two wildfires decimating communities in North California at 23,000 Monday, one motorist’s heart-thumping first person video of his escape from the blaze is showing the world just how terrifying the situation has become.

  The harrowing two minutes of footage posted to YouTube by user mulletFive begins with the unnamed driver careening through the smoke-filled streets of Anderson Springs, where the Valley Fire in Lake County had consumed an astonishing 61,000 acres as of Monday

  The fire rages on both sides of the speeding vehicle, which passes beneath the Anderson Springs town gate like a scene from a apocalyptic film and beneath the video the driver appeared to tell the tale of his brush with death. more here