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Nurse 'lucky to be alive' after being engulfed in flames in freak petrol accident

A nurse who was engulfed in flames in a freak accident as she used petrol to burn garden waste says she is lucky to be alive.

Doris Modlin, 32, had gone outside to help her partner who had been trimming trees in their garden but was unaware the pile of leaves and branches had been doused in gasoline.

Surrounded by invisible fumes, she suffered severe burns when she managed to light a match, suddenly engulfing her in flames.

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