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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Train in Canada surrounded by wildfire

ARMSTRONG, ONTARIO, CANADA (NBC, KYMA) - It's a harrowing scene captured on video as Canadian National Railway crew is surrounded by a raging wildfire inside a train in Northern Ontario.

The scenes outside the window of the train are breathtaking as a wall of flame engulfs the tree line just feet away from tracks.

"Y'all need to hurry up here, like, seriously," says one of the crew members. "We're encased in flames now."

The crew member's voice can be heard from behind the camera as he pans around the cab, which is cast in the orange-red light of the flames outside.

The fire is raging above the treetops as wind whips smoke by the window. Then he speaks again, asking if someone named "Jodie" is still on the line.

He pans around again, and shows the dashboard in front of him, which reads Armstrong on it.

A spokesperson for the CN Railway confirmed "the crew was safely evacuated from the area," but offered no other details.

There were more than a hundred active wildfires in Northwestern Ontario this week.

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