WATCH the moment a BBC star’s home is engulfed in flames leaving him and his partner with serious injuries.
Nick Palit, 60, and his wife Angela, 59, were left with burns when the fireplace in their Penrith home exploded.
Thick smoke billowed from the windows of the couple’s Penrith home[/caption]
The intense heat from the blaze destroyed the interior of the house[/caption]
The couple’s home was left completely trashed by the fire[/caption]
The horror unfolded on Spetember 16 shortly after Angela arrived home from work and asked her husband to put the fire on so she could enjoy a glass of wine.
The fireplace then violently exploded sending Angela flying across the kitchen and lighting her hair ablaze.
Angela described feeling her face burning in the harrowing incident which left her thinking she was going to die.
Video from the scene of the blaze shows firefighters desperately trying to bring their hoses to bear to tackle the flames.
Plumes of thick smoke can be seen pouring from the home as the fire rips its way through the interior.
Clouds of dark smoke fill the street as fire crews desperately battle to get the inferno under control.
Both Nick and his wife were left with serious injuries in the horror fire.
Nick’s arm was left blistered and raw by the intense heat of the fire while his wife suffered severe burns to her face.
The couple’s home was completely wrecked in the inferno with images of the inside showing the extent of the damage.
A staircase in the home was left black and charred while the kitchen and even the bathroom were consumed by the fire.
The inside of the property was left a blackened wreck by the intense heat.
“I caught a fireball really that I was not expecting,” Angela said on BBC Radio Wales.
“I was trying to put it out with a damp cloth, and it just exploded at me as I was walking towards it, and just blew me across the kitchen.
“I ended up on the floor. My hair was on fire, my face was burning, I thought I was going to die.
Nick was left with severe burns on his arm[/caption]
Angela suffered burns to her face after she was thrown across the room by the explosion[/caption]
Nick described lighting the bio-ethanol fireplace as he always did before noticing black smoke coming off of it.
Shortly after the smoke alarm went off and, as Angela went to turn the fire off, the fireplace exploded.
Nick described seeing his wife being flung through the air by the force of the blast.
The pair dashed out of the home and away from danger before calling 999.
Both Nick and Angela were treated for their burns at the scene before being rushed to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
They were later transferred to a specialist burns unit at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital.
To add insult to injury the couple reportedly returned home to find their four expensive e-bikes had disappeared from outside their home.
A security tracker alerted the couple that their e-bikes were at a property just two miles away.
Nick arranged to meet police at the building which was a small block of flats but because officers couldn’t pin point which flat the bikes were in they were unable to recover them.
Nick and Angela suffered severe injuries in the fire[/caption]
