Heartless motorist smiles as he cuts off people waiting '4 hours' in line to return home after devastating wildfires

A heartless Los Angeles man was caught smiling after he reportedly cut off an elderly woman waiting for her son amid mass evacuations.

Director Nate Clark confronted the unidentified man in a video he posted to Instagram on Saturday, asking for the public's help to find him.

'Here's the guy who just cut the little old lady off,' Clark said as he zoomed his camera in on a man driving a Chevy Silverado on a residential road.

'But the officers have your Silverado clocked and they're not going to let you in,' he warns as the Silverado driver pulls next to him, and starts smirking.

'Good luck,' Clark tells the man, who wishes him a 'wonderful day.'

'You have a wonderful day,' Clark shoots back, before asking the man his name.

The driver then seems to deride the director, who informs him that he has 35,000 YouTube followers.

'Hey whatever man, good job,' the driver says, before defending his actions. 'You've never cut anybody off in LA? I was right there.'

'I certainly didn't in the middle of a pandemic and a fire,' Clark shoots back.

Still, the man continues to defend himself, saying he was at a stop light, before Clark cuts him off.

'You know how it works,' the director retorts. 'Are you really that dumb? Are you really that stupid? I don't believe it.

'I think you're just rich and you're an a**hole,' Clark says as the video cuts off.

He explained in the caption that the incident came as residents were waiting in line for four hours trying to get back to their homes in the Palisades fire zone.

'So I hope somebody knows this guy,' Clark wrote. 'He just tried to cut off a little old lady and her adult son... while she was out of her car looking for her son when he wandered off.

'This experience has shown me the best and the worst of humanity,' the director said of the mass evacuations amid the deadly wildfires that continue to spread through Los Angeles County.

'This guy thinks his pain is worth more than everyone else's. Where did he learn that'

'Take care of each other out there, we've all got to do better by each other,' the director concluded. 

The line cutter's brazen act came as 180,000 people were forced to evacuate the city of Angels, including in the star-studded Brentwood and Mandeville Canyon areas.

Those evacuation orders caused gridlock to build up on Sunset Boulevard, with one distressed woman telling ABC 7 how she was stuck in unmoving traffic for two hours when she was trying to get to a fire station to donate goods for firefighters.

'There was a visibility when I first got here, a little bit of blue sky, and it has unfolded to absolutely ugliness,' she told the publication.

The good Samaritan added that while standing still on the road, she offered a place to stay to a woman in the car ahead who had been forced to evacuate from her home.

'It's very unfortunate that it takes something like this to bring everybody together. Hopefully this will continue, even after this,' she told the publication. 

But the fast-moving blazes continued to tear through the wealthy conclave on Sunday, after already taking at least 16 lives and wiping out an estimated 40,300 acres of land, 12,300 homes and other structures.

As of Sunday evening, the Palisades Fire extended more than 23,000 acres and the Eaton Fire scorched over 14,000 acres.

The Hurst Fire in the City of Los Angeles was about 76 percent contained, but the National Weather Service warned that gusty winds of up to 50 to 65 miles per hour on Monday could cause explosive fire growth.