Rabbit said she could see flames engulfing the road and start coming toward her car.
"I was sitting in my car just screaming, waiting to die, but trying to tell myself, 'OK, it may not look like it to me, but I bet they have this under control,'" Rabbit told Business Insider. "'I just can't see that because I'm not a firefighter. I'm not an emergency personnel.'"
She found her burned car in a tow lot 11 days after leaving it and escaping Paradise on foot.