On Sunday a grass fire broke out along the I-5 highway in Natomas near Sacramento, torching cars and sending local scrambling on foot for safety
Good Samaritan Gerald Contreras recorded the chaos along the highway where the median caught ablaze. In the harrowing footage he guides trapped drivers to drive through a cut hole in a wire fence to escape the blazing road
Frantic locals were seen running away from the sudden grass blaze under the direction of Contreras