Terrifying dashcam footage has emerged of cars enveloped by a raging wildfire on a road in eastern Siberia - with one vehicle driving past with its roof blazing . The clip resembles scenes from a Hollywood disaster movie , with cars turning around in the road and turning back in a desperate bid to escape the inferno . At the start visibility for the driver of the car with the dashcam is zero , then intense blue flames from burning trees emerge through the blanket of smoke and ash . Terrifying dashcam footage has emerged of cars enveloped by a raging wildfire on a road in eastern Siberia - with one vehicle driving past with its roof blazing . The clip begins with visibility for the driver of the car with the dashcam at zero . After a few seconds intense blue flames emerge through the smoke and dust . A jeep with its roof on fire suddenly races past after a few seconds . Moments later a jeep races past on the right with the back of its roof on fire , the situation far too hazardous for the driver to stop and put them out . The dashcam car drives onwards through smoke and burning debris , flaming branches bouncing off the windscreen . The clip ends with visibility back down to almost nothing . Wildfires in Siberia have been raging since March 19 , with the death toll this week climbing to 30 , and leaving 500 injured , according to Russia Today . The initial cost of . the damage caused by the wildfires has been put at around $ 96million ( £64million ) . At one point the way ahead is illuminated like a flaming runway . Wildfires in Siberia have been raging since March 19 , with the death toll this week climbing to 30 and leaving 500 injured . The dashcam car drives onwards through smoke and burning debris , flaming branches bouncing off the windscreen . Cars are filmed turning around in the road and driving back the way they came in a desperate bid to escape the inferno . The intensity of the roadside fire is truly terrifying , the traffic just yards away from the flames . A local healthcare ministry official said more than 900. people had asked for medical help and about 100 had been taken . to hospital , TASS news agency reported , as fires raged across . grasslands in dry and windy weather over several days . A primary school , other public infrastructure and private . homes have been damaged or destroyed and some cattle have been . killed , Zimin said . Wildfires in Russia often start when locals set grass on . fire on rolling fields to clean them up after the winter , a. widespread practice criticised by environmentalists as well as . state officials . Wildfires in the hot summer of 2010 caused dozens of deaths . in Russia . Some scientists and environmentalists suggest the . number of indirect deaths caused by the heat wave and wildfires . of five years ago may have been much higher .
Terrifying dashcam ##ping has emerged of cars caught in an inferno . The clip was witnessed by the driver of a truck in eastern Siberia . At one point a jeep sped past with the back of its roof ablaze . fires in Siberia have been raging since march 2010 , leaving 30 dead .