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A terrifying video taken at the front line of a killer wildfire shows it tearing through a mountainside village.

Facebook user Michael Luciano posted a series of videos as he and a companion raced from their home in a 4x4 car surrounded by the inferno.

He filmed their heart-stopping descent as they drove through searing blazes that ripped through dozens of homes in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on Monday night.

The full five-minute video begins with Michael telling the driver to turn around as they hit a dead-end.

(Image: Storyful/ Michael Luciano)

But things get increasingly more desperate as their car heaves over fallen trees and comes within feet of huge blazes that have swallowed homes in what he calls Chalet Village - understood to be a cabin rental business.

Talking into the camera , he says: "We just got stuck, we're turning around, there's power lines and trees blocking the road, we cannot get out.

"Oh s***, oh God, hit the gas, you can see, everything is burning around us, every cabin, everything.

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He sounds increasingly frightened as the fire appears to close in on the road they are on before reassuring what sounds like a dog in the back of the car: "I don't know about this. It's ok, Red.

"They're not even trying to put this s*** out, no warning, nothing, not one single warning on the news, and you're telling me nobody knew, almost every single cabin in Chalet Village is burning to the freaking ground.

(Image: Storyful/ Michael Luciano)

"Please lord let us get off this mountain."

Then, in even more frightening scenes, the car gets stuck behind a fallen tree.

Fortunately, Michael and his companions managed to escape the blaze and he captioned the video: “We almost didn’t make it out alive!! But we did,” wrote Luciano, whose video has been viewed around five million times.

The National Guard has been called up to help with the emergency.

(Image: Storyful/ Michael Luciano)

At least three people are understood to have died in the fires.

Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller said they were killed in separate locations.

CNN reported him telling reporters: "We have not been able to get into all the areas."

Hundreds of buildings are understood to have been destroyed.