A group of Burbank firefighters from Local 778 had a phone ready when a Prius — with people inside — careened down a Burbank hillside road on a river of churning mud Tuesday as heavy rain pelted the area downstream from December’s Creek fire burn area.

The car’s driver told KTLA that he was in the Prius with another person when it was swept down the hill, and he posted his own video after the harrowing experience: