This fire crew was filmed travelling through an inferno in Flinders Chase.

It can be hard to grasp the danger facing firefighters from the safety of our homes.

A new video puts you in the middle of the inferno that tore through South Australia’s Kangaroo Island.

Footage shows firefighters on the front line of the Flinders Chase National Park where more than 200,000 hectares has been burnt.

It was shot from the back seat of a fire truck passing through the firezone before being confronted with the firefront.

“Don’t touch the windows,” a brigade member can be heard saying.

“We’ll just keep deep breathing and we’ll just take it slow.”

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Over the radio as the convoy of five trucks pass through burned out landscape, a strike team leader asks: “Approximately how far do you think we are from the safe haven? …

“Getting a bit smoky and hot in here.

“We’re putting some oxygen in for the driver.”

Those on board are advised to drop the fire curtains before they push on through the firefront.

“We’ve got no choice, we’ve gotta get through this,” a brigade member says.

One of the crew on board, CFS member Mark Harte, told the Adelaide Advertiser five appliances were sent in to fight the fire before it turned on them.

“We were chasing the fire in the morning and then by lunchtime we had to start running away from it,” he said.

“The strike team leaders were extremely calm, cool and collected and got us out.”

The impact on Kangaroo Island’s animal population has been felt particularly hard.

“When we found this area we never thought anything could have survived, but we have pulled survivors out of there every day,” Humane Society International crisis response specialist Kelly Donithan told AFP while on patrol this week.

Samantha Vine from Birdlife Australia said it was inevitable that many of the nation’s unique species have been pushed to the brink of distinction.

“Bird species that we are most concerned about include the Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo, the regent honeyeater and the western ground parrot and the northern eastern bristlebird,” she said.

W ith wires