A TERRIFIED disabled woman has told of the frightening moment her house was engulfed in flames after her son’s car exploded, gutting her home of 24 years.

Fibromyalgia sufferer, Marie Jefferson, had only returned from a niece’s wedding in Edinburgh the night before and was lying on her bed recovering when the car blew up while her dad was working on it.

Ms Jefferson, 49, told the Observer: “It was terrifying.”

The mum-of-two, her father and son have now been rehoused at Windsor’s Travelodge in King Edward Court following the blaze at her Lismore Park home in Slough.

She added: “I have lost everything, all my memories of my children, all my belongings.”

The drama unfolded at around 1pm on Monday of last week when Ms Jefferson’s father, Colin Kimble, worked on her son Aaron’s black Vauxhall Corsa at the front of the house.

She said he sprayed WD40 on a bolt holding back seat safety belts so he could replace them when the spanner he was using sparked and set fire to the carpet.

As he went inside to find something to douse the flames the car exploded into a fire ball and blew out the front windows before the blaze spread through the rest of the house.

Ms Jefferson said: “My homewas gone in 15 minutes.”

“The whole of my life went up in flames.”

Ms Jefferson was able to hobble downstairs to join her shocked father before both escaped into the back garden.

Mr Kimble tried to use a garden hose to tackle the blaze while a neighbour threw buckets of water over the car and front of the house, but the heat was so intense he was forced back.

Firefighters had to smash down the garden fence to rescue the couple. They took more than three hours to bring the blaze under control using an aerial platform, two main jets and three hoses. Six firefighters were forced to wear breathing gear.

Both Ms Jefferson and her father were taken to Wexham Park Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.

Son Aaron, 21, an IT analyst at Pinewood Studios, daughter Kasey Kimble, 24, an estate agents’ accountant in Bath Road, Slough and her boyfriend Dominic Humphreys, 25, a mechanic in Marlow Road, were still in Scotland when the tragedy occurred.

They made a 10-hour dash from Loch Lomond turning up at the scene at midnight to find the home a burnt-out shell.

Ms Jefferson said: “Dad is in shock, we all are. He keeps saying ‘it’s all my fault’, and I have to keep telling him it was all just an accident.

“I’m so upset. I can replace some things, but it’s all the stuff with memories attached that I have lost forever. ”

Ms Jefferson rents her house from Thames Valley Housing Association. A spokesman said: “We are currently looking into alternative housing arrangements for Ms Jefferson and her family to minimise the length of their stay in the current hotel accommodation at this difficult time. “Fortunately, the fire-stopping materials between the houses were able to prevent the spread of fire to the adjoining properties and we are very glad to hear that nobody was seriously harmed in the incident.”

Ms Jefferson revealed she has no contents insurance. Niece Carla Kimble has started a funding page. Visit www.gofundme.com/help-my-auntie-marie