0:00:02 > 0:00:05A close call, a moment of danger when life can hang in the balance.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08What would happen if I wasn't found or didn't find a way out of it?
0:00:08 > 0:00:11A split second where the outcome could go either way.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14It's a choice, life or death.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16The difference between disaster and survival.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20We saw a lady who was critically ill, if not dying in front of us.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23I kept thinking the hotel was going to fall on us.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27These are the people that have been there and lived to tell the tale.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29It's a day they will never forget.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31The day they had a close call.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Today on Close Calls: a burning car on a motorway.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53A woman is trapped inside.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Drivers speed past unaware...
0:00:56 > 0:01:00until one couple stop and risk their own lives to help.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02We feared it would explode.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06People were shouting, "It's going to blow up, it's going to blow up."
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Also today, a teenage adventurer
0:01:10 > 0:01:12poses beneath an Antarctic ice arch
0:01:12 > 0:01:14to highlight global warming.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18What he doesn't know is that minutes later, tonnes of ice will come
0:01:18 > 0:01:20crashing down.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25It sounded like a massive bang going off,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28louder than anything I've ever heard before.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37And a family beachcombing along the shoreline discover an object
0:01:37 > 0:01:39covered in strange barnacles.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41We'd never seen anything like it before.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46Our mind was so focused on them we didn't take notice of what they were actually on.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50But the family soon find out the terrifying secret
0:01:50 > 0:01:52of the object beneath.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Me and Kelly had a little look at each other's eyes
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and realised how close we came.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Manchester, the M60 motorway.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11A traffic camera is about to capture a life or death drama.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14The car slowly edging onto the slip road has caught fire.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18The driver is 73-year-old Anne Wade.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21The smoke started to come out from under the bonnet.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Then a few seconds later, flames came out.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Anne is forced to stop in the exit lane.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30She's in the way of speeding traffic and her car's on fire.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33She is in serious danger.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I tried to open the door and it wouldn't open.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39The electrics have failed, the fire is growing more intense.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Anne is trapped in her burning car.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46It was flames in front of the windscreen.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Another couple of minutes and I'd have been dead.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55Her only hope is that one of the drivers racing past stops to help.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Pensioner Anne Wade lives in Liverpool.
0:03:05 > 0:03:10A widow for 17 years, she's used to doing things for herself.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13People tell me I'm very independent.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15I just get on with things on my own,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18like buying this house and renovating it.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21People used to say, "You'll never do that, you'll never do that."
0:03:22 > 0:03:25But I do.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31But one December day, Anne is suddenly plunged into an emergency
0:03:31 > 0:03:33where she is truly helpless.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39It's just past midday and Anne is on her way home after a pre-Christmas
0:03:39 > 0:03:42visit to see her daughter and grandchildren in Leeds.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Her journey takes her along the busy M60 motorway.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48I must have been driving for 40 years.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53I've never had any problems with my car before now.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55But today that's about to change.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Dramatically.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02The heating packed up.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Two or three miles later,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07the steering and the brake wouldn't work.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12The smoke started to come out from under the bonnet.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16And then a few seconds later, flames came out.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18And it all happened very fast.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21This footage from a Highways Agency traffic camera
0:04:21 > 0:04:24captures what happens next.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27The flames from Anne's car are clearly visible as she comes round
0:04:27 > 0:04:31the bend. Limping along, she just about manages
0:04:31 > 0:04:34to get her car to the side of the road.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37But there's no hard shoulder,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40so she's come to a halt on the slip road.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42It wasn't a place where you'd choose to stop.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Suddenly the flames intensify.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Anne has no option - she has to get out.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54But there's a problem.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58I tried to open the door and it wouldn't open.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01The window wouldn't open - nothing would work, you know?
0:05:01 > 0:05:04And it had locked down.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07To her horror, Anne realises that she is now trapped,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10locked inside a burning car.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12I thought, I'll dial 999,
0:05:12 > 0:05:17so I was looking in my handbag for my phone and I thought,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21this is ridiculous. They won't get here in time.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Anne desperately needs help.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26But no-one's stopping.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Until, on his way home from work in his pick-up truck,
0:05:31 > 0:05:33supermarket supervisor Will Edwards
0:05:33 > 0:05:37and his girlfriend Alison come into view.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Their arrival is a key moment for Anne.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41The couple stop.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44All we saw was her literally with her head on the steering wheel.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46It was a bit of panic, really,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49that somebody was still actually in the car.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Nobody had stopped and helped. That was shocking.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55So we had to do something.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59But it's only a matter of seconds before they all begin to fear
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- it's too late. - I couldn't see what was going on,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05it was flames in front of the windscreen.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07It was petrifying.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10And we just knew that we had to get her out.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Later, risking his own life in a bid to save Anne,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Will is seriously injured.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20The glass is shattered and the force at which I hit it,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22my hands just carried on.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25There was a massive hole in his hand where the blood was
0:06:25 > 0:06:28gushing out from, his hand had actually gone blue.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Coming up, a family make an unusual find during a day out at the beach.
0:06:40 > 0:06:47Ellis thought it was a volcano and I thought that it was a buoy.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49We'd never seen anything like it before.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51They were shell-like creatures,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54but they had little tentacles that were coming in and out.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56But the danger doesn't lie in the creatures.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59It's what they're clinging to.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10The Arctic Ocean, just off the coast of Greenland.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13And a spectacular ice arch, 100 metres high.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Posing beneath is 15-year-old adventurer Tybalt Peake.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20But he doesn't realise the danger he's in.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24It sounded like a massive bomb going off.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Louder than anything I've ever heard before.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29The arch collapses.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Teenager Tybalt Peake lives in the village of Capel Curig,
0:07:43 > 0:07:45deep in the heart of Snowdonia,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48surrounded by the hills and mountains of north Wales.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Growing up here has given Tybalt an unquenchable love of nature.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55My family have always just been into the outdoors.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58I was put on a ski slope and on a bike at a young age,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01so it's just always been something I've done.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06My main hobbies are climbing, skiing, mountain biking, kayaking,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09going camping, jumping off bridges, swimming in the river.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Just anything active and outdoorsy, really.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15For long-suffering mum Alice,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17keeping tabs on Tybalt has been difficult.
0:08:17 > 0:08:23I think Tybalt has scared me from almost the moment he could move.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Even when he could crawl he seemed to managed to crawl outside
0:08:27 > 0:08:30and pull himself into a tree. He's a constant stress!
0:08:32 > 0:08:33He was terrible at school.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35He was constantly running away.
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Being in a classroom for Tybalt is like some kind of torture.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42You know, if they left him for one second,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44he'd just run off into the wilderness.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47So Alice struck a deal with Tybalt.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50If he agreed to be home-schooled and work hard,
0:08:50 > 0:08:54then she would allow him to go off on his various adventures and
0:08:54 > 0:08:56expeditions.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58I imagined that at some point he would stop.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02But now I think he's not going to grow out of it.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05She's just now kind of accepted that this is how I want to live my life
0:09:05 > 0:09:07and allows me to do that.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11It feels much easier with my daughter, who plays the harp!
0:09:11 > 0:09:14You know, I have to drive her to some concerts!
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Campaigning against climate change is one of Tybalt's passions and he's
0:09:18 > 0:09:20excited when he hears two family friends,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Frances Bran and Christina Sheller,
0:09:23 > 0:09:27are attempting to sail the Northwest Passage.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30It's a challenging sea route linking the Northern Atlantic and Pacific
0:09:30 > 0:09:33oceans through the Arctic Ocean.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Only a handful of boats make it through each year,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38but he's determined to go with them.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40The Arctic's a very interesting place to me.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I asked if I could crew for them,
0:09:43 > 0:09:47they were looking for a third person and surprisingly, they said yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Also surprisingly, so did Mum.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55At 15, Tybalt would be the youngest sailor to attempt the Northwest Passage.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Well, for weeks I was just racked with,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01"Have I done the right thing?"
0:10:01 > 0:10:04It's completely irresponsible to let him do it.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07But he was so happy and I guess, you know,
0:10:07 > 0:10:11because he was so unhappy at school that it was an amazing thing just to
0:10:11 > 0:10:15give in, to let him be who he wanted to be.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18And for the next few months on the 6,000-mile voyage
0:10:18 > 0:10:23aboard the 49-foot Snow Dragon II, Tybalt was in his element,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26often filming his journey.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29We are literally in the middle of the ice.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34But it's a hostile environment and unwittingly,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Tybalt puts himself in real danger,
0:10:36 > 0:10:40when his crew and another yacht they are travelling with find
0:10:40 > 0:10:42a spectacular ice arch.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46You do come across iceberg arches, but this was massive.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50It was 100 metres out of the water, unlike anything we'd ever seen.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53As a representative of a climate change charity,
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Tybalt decides this is a perfect photo opportunity
0:10:56 > 0:10:58to help promote the cause.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00I thought it'd be awesome to get some pictures with me and
0:11:00 > 0:11:03- my banner under the iceberg. - On his own, Tybalt boats over
0:11:03 > 0:11:05to the arch in the yacht's small motor dinghy.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08I took some pictures and messed about around there.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12But he's constantly aware of the threat of moving ice.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17It was going through my head, "What would happen if this collapsed?"
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I knew I would be crushed and that would be the end of me.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22So it was pretty nerve-racking.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26It's occurred to Tybalt's sailing companions too.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29And after a few minutes, they anxiously call him back.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33I hopped back on the big boat and we were going to move on
0:11:33 > 0:11:36and then all of a sudden, the whole thing just came crashing down.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38With Tybalt safely back on board,
0:11:38 > 0:11:43the others film from the yacht as bigger and bigger slabs of ice start
0:11:43 > 0:11:45falling off the arch.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49As the ice crashes into the sea,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52they stop filming to move the boat to a safer distance.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56But Tybalt manages to take some photographs of what happens next.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59The arch completely collapses.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Hundreds and hundreds of tonnes of ice came crashing down off it.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08It sounded like a massive bomb going off.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Louder than anything I've ever heard before.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Chillingly, it's where Tybalt was only moments before.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15If I were still under the arch when it collapsed,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18I would have been killed instantly from the impact.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21It would have been like a building just falling straight on someone.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24It's a pretty weird experience thinking, like,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28had I done something slightly slower this morning or had I woken up
0:12:28 > 0:12:3010 minutes later, I would have been killed.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Tybalt's lucky he made it back to the yacht
0:12:34 > 0:12:36and wasn't still in the dinghy.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40There was a four-metre wake that came straight off the iceberg
0:12:40 > 0:12:44from the collapse. The boat was rocking and the wake would have just
0:12:44 > 0:12:46flipped the dinghy and I would have been in the water and in a few
0:12:46 > 0:12:50minutes, you're going to be dead and you're paralysed almost instantly.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53I mean, the water's about -1.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Perhaps wisely, he waits a few weeks
0:12:56 > 0:12:59before sending the pictures of what happened to Mum.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02If that had fallen and he was underneath it,
0:13:02 > 0:13:04there's no way you would have found him.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08He'd have just been taken down to the bottom of the ocean and I just
0:13:08 > 0:13:09wanted him home by then.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14I just...was desperate. I just wanted him off that boat.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18But it's an agonising wait for Mum while Tybalt
0:13:18 > 0:13:21completes the four-month trip.
0:13:21 > 0:13:27When I picked him up it was just, like, incredible to see him again
0:13:27 > 0:13:31and just to hug him and feel he was all bony.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Being away from my family was pretty challenging for four months.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38That was one of the toughest parts.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42And also, you know, he'd succeeded and that was
0:13:42 > 0:13:44very exciting.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Tybalt has become the youngest sailor to successfully complete the
0:13:49 > 0:13:54Northwest Passage, but he'll be a lot more careful on his next trip.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57I will be going back to the Arctic, but obviously,
0:13:57 > 0:14:00I'll be steering well clear of the iceberg arches, I think.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02That was, you know, too close, really,
0:14:02 > 0:14:06and I don't want it to happen again, that's for sure.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22When disaster strikes, the emergency services are only a phone call away.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23But when seconds are at stake,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27it's often members of the public who step in to save the day.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Back on the M60 near Manchester,
0:14:35 > 0:14:39pensioner Anne is trapped in her car as other drivers race past.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45The motorway's CCTV captures the smoke and flames engulfing her.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Shocked by the scene, Will Edwards and his girlfriend Alison
0:14:49 > 0:14:53have just approached and passed her in their pick-up truck.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57It was a normal day and then we came across Anne.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01At the side, you could see the flames coming out and also
0:15:01 > 0:15:04from the side of the car, just under the wheel arch.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Wow, you know? Where is the person that that car belongs to?
0:15:07 > 0:15:10There was nobody over the barrier or anywhere on the highway
0:15:10 > 0:15:11that we could see at the side
0:15:11 > 0:15:14and that's when we checked the car when we drove past.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17And that's when we saw Anne.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20All we was her literally with her head on the steering wheel.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22It was a bit of a panic, really,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24that somebody was still actually in the car.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Nobody had stopped and helped.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32That was shocking. So we had to do something.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35There was no way that either of us would have driven on and left her in
0:15:35 > 0:15:37that vehicle.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41Will and Alison pull up a short distance ahead of Anne's car.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Will runs to her. That's him in the yellow jacket.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49The initial thought wasn't to call for the emergency services,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51it was to get the woman out of the car,
0:15:51 > 0:15:53because we feared it would explode.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58At that moment, Will knocked on the window.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00She just looked at me in shock.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04He was trying to tell me to open the lock and I was trying to
0:16:04 > 0:16:07tell him I couldn't. You know, it wasn't working.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11She needed to pull the door lock up inside the car,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14but she just couldn't understand what I was trying to say to her.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18With every second critical,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Will realises he'll have to smash the window
0:16:21 > 0:16:23so he can pull the lock himself.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28He was trying to break the window with his elbow and he couldn't.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31It felt like a brick wall. It wasn't working.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34My elbow just kept on bouncing back off.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Alison runs to the car to see if she can help.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43The smoke was beginning to fill the inside of the car.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46It was making my chest feel quite tight.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48We just knew that we had to get her out.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Anne's now been in the burning car for two minutes.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55While Will rushes back to his pick-up
0:16:55 > 0:16:59to search for something to break the glass, Alison stays with her.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03I couldn't just run back and leave her on her own.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07She looked fearful more than anything about what was happening.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10But Alison is forced back by the choking smoke.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Other drivers begin to pull over to help.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17One of them dials 999.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21A fire and rescue crew from Salford station head to the scene,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24led by Mark Humphries.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26In terms of car fires, 10 a penny.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29But obviously, once you receive information that
0:17:29 > 0:17:31there's somebody possibly in the vehicle,
0:17:31 > 0:17:33everybody sort of steps up a gear, really,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37and we start planning for that en route to the incident.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39But with heavy traffic, it's tough getting there
0:17:39 > 0:17:42and Mark can see the smoke from Anne's car on the horizon.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45The volume of smoke that was coming from the vehicle,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47I thought that if anybody was in there,
0:17:47 > 0:17:49then their chances of survival were slim.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Back at the roadside, the flames are becoming even more ferocious.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57It was petrifying.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- ANNE:- I couldn't see what was going on in front of me.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03There was flames in front of the windscreen.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06But I knew that if I waited around any longer,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Anne may not have been around any longer.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Searching frantically in his truck, Will finds a metal wheel brace.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18He then runs back to Anne. Several other motorists join them.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21I heard people shouting,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23"Oh, it's going to blow up, it's going to blow up!" You know?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27He had no fear for his own life whatsoever.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30He just wanted to get Anne out of that car.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33The first thing he said to me was, "Turn your head away."
0:18:34 > 0:18:38The footage shows the moment Will strikes the glass with the brace.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40It took him three goes...
0:18:41 > 0:18:43..to smash the window in.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47The glass is shattered and the force at which I've hit it,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50my hands just carried on going through the glass.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Will hasn't realised he's injured himself.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58He tries to lift the door lock to release Anne, but finds he can't.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02His hand wasn't working.
0:19:02 > 0:19:07In breaking the window, Will has seriously damaged his right hand.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10I then realised that I needed to go in with my other hand and then
0:19:10 > 0:19:13proceeded to open the door lock.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17At last, Anne is free.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21The other passers-by rush in to help carry her to safety.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26I got out of the car pretty quickly and I was quite happy, I'll say!
0:19:29 > 0:19:33What a lovely young man, coming to my rescue.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37But a rescuer is now in need of help himself.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41I didn't feel any pain when I first cut my hand, and then,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44blood started coming out of it very quickly.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47There was a massive hole in his hand.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50There was actually a gentleman that pulled up behind our car
0:19:50 > 0:19:51that had a first aid kit in his car
0:19:51 > 0:19:55and if it hadn't been for him wrapping Will's hand up like he did,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57he would have genuinely lost his hand that day.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00It was to the point where, where the blood was gushing out from,
0:20:00 > 0:20:03his hand had actually gone blue.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07While other drivers help Will, a truck driver stops and tries,
0:20:07 > 0:20:11unsuccessfully, to put out the blaze with a small extinguisher.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Minutes later, Mark's fire crew arrive.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- MARK HUMPHRIES:- The whole front compartment of the car
0:20:18 > 0:20:21was engulfed in flames. And it's beyond a doubt
0:20:21 > 0:20:23that if anyone had still been in that vehicle,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25then they wouldn't have survived.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28The fire is eventually put out by a firefighter
0:20:28 > 0:20:30wearing breathing apparatus.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36I just thought, "I'm glad I got out of that."
0:20:36 > 0:20:38I was shivering a bit.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40I suppose that was shock.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Firefighter Mark Canary checks to see how Anne is.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50She did tell me that she'd taken quite a bit of smoke in,
0:20:50 > 0:20:51so she was quite disorientated.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54And obviously that's quite damaging to the body,
0:20:54 > 0:20:56especially to the lungs.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- ANNE:- It felt uncomfortable breathing in and out.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01It was a bit... It felt a bit tight.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I administered them with oxygen therapy,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05which we'd always do if anybody's breathed in
0:21:05 > 0:21:07any toxic fumes or smoke.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12And that's when the fireman said to me that a couple more minutes
0:21:12 > 0:21:14and I would have been dead.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Another firefighter tends to Will.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19He restrapped my hand.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21You know, he was part of the trauma team, I believe.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- He looked at my hand. - And that's when he noticed that
0:21:24 > 0:21:26the wound to Will's hand was that severe,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28you could actually see the bones through the skin.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Within minutes, ambulances arrive to take Anne and Will to Salford Hospital.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35When I got to the hospital,
0:21:35 > 0:21:40I was on oxygen and a nebuliser and all sorts.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44But Will needs immediate emergency surgery on his injured right hand.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48He severed the tendon smashing through Anne's car window.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52The operation is a success and, after two months,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55he makes a full recovery.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Will was very, very brave.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02It's almost impossible to say how thankful I am.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04The injury is more than worth it, you know.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05I would do it again in a heartbeat.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10The chief of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service also recognised
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Will's actions by awarding him a certificate of bravery.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16And now he's got a taste for it, Will wants to be a fireman.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20I think helping people is in my nature and
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I don't think of any other better way than,
0:22:23 > 0:22:25you know, doing what they do.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Burry Port, South Wales.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37A family enjoying a day at the beach
0:22:37 > 0:22:40comes across some strange sea creatures
0:22:40 > 0:22:44attached to what looks like a buoy washed up on the shore.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46We'd never seen anything like it before.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48They were, like, shell-like creatures.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51They had little tentacles that were coming in and out.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Our mind was so focused on them,
0:22:53 > 0:22:56we didn't take notice of what they were actually on.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00If they had, the family might have taken more care.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03That's not a buoy, it's a bomb.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Burry Port in Carmarthenshire is a small town
0:23:17 > 0:23:19on the south coast of Wales.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21It is also a home to dad Gareth,
0:23:21 > 0:23:24rugby fan Ellis, aged four,
0:23:24 > 0:23:28mum Kelly and six-year-old Erin.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31We are a young family. We enjoy going out to the seaside.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33We tend to visit our local beach quite often.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35We are quite an inquisitive family,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38so there's always things washed up there.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40And one glorious August day,
0:23:40 > 0:23:43there's simply nowhere else they'd rather be.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46The family head off with their swimsuits and beach toys
0:23:46 > 0:23:48for a fun day out together.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51The main beach was busy, so we decided to, sort of,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54set up our things a little bit away from there.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57As we were walking across, we seen a large metal object on the beach.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02And then Daddy said, "What's that thing over there?"
0:24:02 > 0:24:05And then Ellis thought that it was a volcano,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08and I thought that it was a buoy,
0:24:08 > 0:24:10and Mummy thought that it was a buoy.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14But it's what's clinging to the object that catches their attention.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17We'd never seen anything like it before.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19They were, like, shell-like creatures.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21They had little tentacles that were coming in and out.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24They looked like mini octopuses, really, the eggs.
0:24:24 > 0:24:30And there were really long ones, the black long ones.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31We were playing with the kids,
0:24:31 > 0:24:33pretending it was a big sea alien, there,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36and they were popping in and out their tentacles.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39I touched them and they went in quick.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44Ellis was tapping on them and he was knocking on this object.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Well, our minds were so focused on them,
0:24:46 > 0:24:49we didn't take notice of what they were actually on.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53The family are so fascinated by what they've found,
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Gareth videos it on his phone, and takes a series of photographs,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00and when he gets home, he puts them on social media.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02There was a lot of people commenting on them,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04saying how gruesome they looked
0:25:04 > 0:25:07and no-one had ever seen them in Burry Port before.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08And later on that night,
0:25:08 > 0:25:14I saw a news article and there was a sea buoy washed up in Pembury,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16which is a couple of miles away from where we live
0:25:16 > 0:25:18with all these rare barnacles on them.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23The barnacles that we had seen were rare gooseneck barnacles and
0:25:23 > 0:25:26they were a rare delicacy in Spain and worth quite a lot of money.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30So we were laughing and joking about how we didn't cash in on it.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33But five days later, they get a shock.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35I had a phone call off my friend
0:25:35 > 0:25:37saying that they had closed off the beach
0:25:37 > 0:25:41in Burry Port due to an unexploded military device.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Some people had posted photographs of this explosive device and
0:25:45 > 0:25:48it turned out that it was actually the same thing
0:25:48 > 0:25:50that my children playing with.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52It was quite a shock to the system, to be honest.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53It was terrifying, actually,
0:25:53 > 0:25:58to think that my children were so close to that device.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00To think that my son was knocking on it,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03he was playing with the barnacles...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05And it could have just exploded.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10And they get to witness what could have happened that day.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14We hear then that there was going to be a controlled detonation of
0:26:14 > 0:26:16the bomb that evening at six o'clock,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18so we went down to have a little look.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Down at the beach, a member of the public
0:26:21 > 0:26:25films the Royal Navy bomb squad assessing the unexploded device.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29It turns out to be an old sea mine.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31It's too unsafe to move,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34so the decision is taken to destroy it on the beach.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Half the town turns out to watch.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39There was police there, there was coastguard there,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42a bomb squad, so the kids were quite excited.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43They'd cordoned off the area completely
0:26:43 > 0:26:45and they were warning people to stay away.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50With everybody at a safe distance, one of the crowd films the event.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54And at 6pm, it's time to set the bomb off.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00As the bomb went off, the ground shook.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04I didn't expect the explosion to be as big as what it was.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08We could actually feel the explosion in your chest.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12A tiny bit scary, because it was a big bomb.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16When it went bang, I nearly fell off Daddy's shoulders.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19She sort of looked, and she said,
0:27:19 > 0:27:23I'm glad that didn't go off when we were there last week, Mummy.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Me and Kelly had a little look in each other's eyes and realised
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- how close we came.- It was quite a frightening experience.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35But the family haven't let it put them off going to their favourite local beach.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Little Ellis, I think he wants me to buy him a metal detector
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- to go looking for more bombs now. - The children love it,
0:27:41 > 0:27:45but we definitely will be more mindful in future.
0:27:57 > 0:28:02Some really close calls today, but all with remarkably good outcomes.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03See you next time.