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 footage has emerged of cars caught in an inferno . The clip was taken by the driver of a car in eastern Siberia . At one point a jeep races past with the back of its roof ablaze . Wildfires in Siberia have been raging since March 19, leaving 30 dead .