{"id":142722,"date":"2023-09-05T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=142722"},"modified":"2023-09-05T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:49:36","slug":"electrician-lucky-to-be-alive-after-van-was-engulfed-by-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/world-news\/electrician-lucky-to-be-alive-after-van-was-engulfed-by-fireball\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrician &apos;lucky to be alive&apos; after van was &apos;engulfed by fireball&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Electrician is &#8216;lucky to be alive&#8217; after his van was &#8216;engulfed by a fireball&#8217; as electricity transformer exploded while he was driving past<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Alan McIlwraith, 55, was showered with burning hot oil from the transformer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>He was driving along a country lane in East Carlton, West Yorkshire on Saturday\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An electrician is &#8216;lucky to be alive&#8217; after his van was seemingly engulfed by a fireball when an electricity transformer exploded as he drove past.<\/p>\n<p>Alan McIlwraith, 55, said his van was showered with 60 litres of burning hot oil from the 11,000-volt transformer as he drove along a country lane in East Carlton, West Yorkshire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball engulfed his van, melting the paintwork and almost frying him inside.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I&#8217;m lucky to be alive. I was driving along a very narrow lane at about 10mph when all of a sudden there was a huge bang and explosion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My van was suddenly engulfed by a fireball. It was like someone had thrown a petrol bomb at my windscreen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/17\/75085035-12483111-Electrician_Alan_McIlwraith_55_is_lucky_to_be_alive_after_his_va-a-36_1693932811671.jpg\" height=\"381\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Electrician Alan McIlwraith, 55, is &#8216;lucky to be alive&#8217; after his van was &#8216;engulfed by a fireball&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was so shocked, I slammed my anchors on and pulled into a gateway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I got out of the van and it was black, I looked down the lane and saw an electricity transformer billowing smoke and fire.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Alan, who had his driver&#8217;s side window open, said he only escaped serious injury because luckily the blast came from the passenger side.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;It was a warm night so I had my window open, but luckily the explosion was on the other side otherwise it could have been a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But I still burned my arm and the side of my face a little from the immense heat.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The self-employed electrician said people from a nearby house came running out to see if he was okay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They were having a party and heard the bang. They came out and I asked them for a damp cloth to cool my arm and face down, it was as if I had bad sunburn. It&#8217;s nothing serious thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The fire brigade, police and ambulance turned up and paramedics checked me out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was very lucky not to get seriously injured.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/17\/75085037-12483111-image-m-15_1693931367606.jpg\" height=\"852\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Veteran spark Alan said the explosion happened because oil used to cool down coils in the transformer had ignited<\/p>\n<p>Veteran spark Alan said the explosion happened because oil used to cool down coils in the transformer had ignited.<\/p>\n<p>A transformer is used to convert the incoming voltage at the location to the correct lower voltage for household use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s an 11,000 kVA transformer on a post. There&#8217;s normally about 40-60 litres of oil inside which is there to cool the coils,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And basically it has exploded and thrown all that oil on to my van and on to the road. The branches of a nearby tree were scorched as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shocked Alan said he was &#8216;wired&#8217; after the close call and couldn&#8217;t get to sleep that night.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;It was a bit of a shock, I couldn&#8217;t get to sleep until about 2am, I&#8217;m getting checked out by the doctor on Monday.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Alan, who lives in Otley, West Yorkshire, said the paintwork on his van is ruined and there&#8217;s also damage to the interior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve just been to jet wash the van and it ain&#8217;t going to be white again. The paintwork is knackered and inside is smoke damaged, it&#8217;s knocked thousands off the value.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He says he now intends to file a claim with Northern Powergrid who run the electricity supply in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12483111\/Electrician-lucky-alive-van-engulfed-fireball-electricity-transformer-exploded.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrician is &#8216;lucky to be alive&#8217; after his van was &#8216;engulfed by a fireball&#8217; as electricity transformer exploded while he was driving past Alan McIlwraith,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Electrician &amp;apos;lucky to be alive&amp;apos; 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