Security Camera Shows Colorado Fire Burn Through Neighborhood With Devastating Speed

Camera footage from a home in Boulder County has shown the speed at which the Colorado fire has ripped through communities.

The video was posted to Twitter on Thursday by the home's owner. She captioned the footage: "Camera outside my home off S. Boulder Road just west of Davidson Mesa. I don't know if my home is still there."

The video has so far been viewed over 630,000 times. It shows a flame increasing in size and engulfing the home and land next to it in just under 2 minutes.

The woman, who uses the name Wendy, tweeted the reason she felt it was important to share this video.

Her first tweet read: "Today has been surreal. I'm numb. I have no idea if our house is still standing, if anything is left.

"I posted this video because 4 minutes before the flames were visible here there was blue sky and the smoke seemed uphill and over a ridge from us, upwind. "

She also tweeted: "This was pre-evacuation, at 1:30 p.m. Our daughter was not in town. Our son drove to the house to grab valuables just in case.

"We couldn't think of much to tell him to grab. We still weren't too worried. As he drove away the flames swept to our home. We watched in disbelief."

In her final tweet, she wrote: "I've done a couple local interviews, my messages are this: evacuate when told.

"Make lists ahead of time so you don't have to rely on your crisis brain to think.

"We are f****** up our planet (this is not normal). I wish i wore my wedding ring when I left this morning."

Colorado Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency on Thursday.

This allows the state to access disaster emergency funds to support the emergency response efforts in Boulder County. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has pledged to pay at least 75 percent of the costs of the fire fighting.

It will be able to access state resources including the use of the Colorado National Guard, Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, and activate the State Emergency Operations Center.

No deaths from the wildfires have been reported but there have been at least six injuries. Over 500 homes have also been destroyed and the fires have covered over 1,600 acres of land.

The cause of the wildfire is believed to be a power line that was downed on Thursday, the situation has also been exacerbated by the powerful winds that have reached over 100 mph.