Emergency services in Scotland have said that a man who escaped after a caravan fire was very lucky, as he was saved by a passing ambulance.
In the early hours of Saturday morning (June 11th) a caravan, parked near the man’s home in Prestonfield, caught fire and the flames spread to the adjacent building, the Scotsman reports.
The unnamed man was reportedly asleep when the fire started and was only alerted to the blaze by paramedics, who happened to be passing in an ambulance.
A spokeswoman for the Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service said that there were gas cylinders inside the caravan, which could have helped the fire to spread quickly.
“The man was lucky he was taken out of the house when he was,” she added.
Two dogs were also saved from the building, although the roof collapsed and the house was later deemed to be unsafe by the local authorities
