Video shows ambulance explode in fireball after dropping off elderly patient

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*ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE*  Shocking footage shows an ambulance explode into a fireball - moments after an elderly patient is dropped off at home.   David and Marilyn Brinklow were having a cup of tea when they heard a huge bang and saw flames engulfing their front garden.  Minutes earlier, a private ambulance had dropped off the couple’s 91-year-old wheelchair-bound neighbour after a hospital stay.   Footage shows two care workers wheeling the woman to her home in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffs., at around 1.45pm on March 14.

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00:00 It was on the 14th of March. My next door neighbour had been in hospital and she had

00:07 just been discharged and I looked out of the living room window and the ambulance pulled

00:14 up and I thought the top hose on the radiator had popped so I could see what I thought was

00:21 steam and after 3 or 4 minutes it was clear it was smoke and it was flames. The upstairs

00:27 bedroom window was blown open, put in the house full of smoke and debris and glass shrapnel.

00:34 Of course it's very frightening to sit there because we were actually looking at the explosion

00:42 on our tablets. You think it's a movie but it really is happening, it's happening to

00:48 you. Your house is filling up with smoke. There was a secondary fire as glass ignited

00:56 the net curtains so that was swiftly put out. We were both physically frightened. It was

01:04 not what you expect to happen. We were expecting the insurance to come and board the window

01:11 up but they informed me that they do not provide emergency repairs to the property so I had

01:19 to climb a carpet and join a by-trade. Luckily I had a piece of board and I boarded the window

01:25 up to make it secure. If I hadn't of done that I would still have a hole in the side

01:31 of the house. At the cost of the repair society to mount up, the back of the car with the

01:39 intense heat actually melted the tailgate of the car. The insurance company wanted to

01:46 write the car off. I managed to source a new tailgate and I fixed it up myself and made

01:53 the car safe again. We're waiting now. It seems like forever to get the repairs done.

02:03 We just want our house to be back how it was.

02:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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