62 People Reveal Terrifying Moments That Nearly Cost Them Their Lives—and How They Miraculously Survived

I’m a volunteer firefighter in Australia and I had a really close call just a couple of months ago.

Got called out to a massive running wheat field fire, flames 12+ feet high moving at about 15 mph was terrifying and a real adrenaline rush because we were doing a direct attack ( rush up along side the edge of the fire and hit it directly from the back of the truck with a hose) was hot as hell and there is very little cover on the back of the truck, the heat and smoke was blinding and hard to handle but everything was going well until we got to a barb wire fence.

We pulled up to the fence a safe distance away from the fire’s edge and I jumped off the back of the truck with Bolt cutters to deal with the fence as I’m cutting it I hear the driver yell out trying to get my attention , what I see when I tern around to see whet he was telling about left me stunned, the wind had changed as I was cutting the fence and now just 10 feet away there’s a wall of flames rushing towards me and starting to overwhelm the truck. I quickly jump on the back of the truck as it quickly reverses away from the flames , the flames lapping at the side of the truck as we spray water on our selves to manage the heat.

Later I watched the dash cam footage from the fire truck and it showed the fire engulfing the spot I was standing just seconds after I started running back to the truck for safety

Everyone was silent on the truck for a good ten minutes after that like we all collectively went “dang we nearly passed away”.

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