Jalgaon: An ambulance driver showed the presence of mind and saved the life of a pregnant woman and her newborn after a cylinder exploded and the vehicle caught fire, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place near a flyover in the Dadawadi area at around 9.45 pm on Wednesday when the ambulance was on its way from Erandol to Jalgaon on the Jalgoan-Dhule National Highway, police said.
They said the life of the pregnant woman Manisha Ravindra Sonawane (25), a resident of Bamane village and her newborn was saved by the driver Rahul Baviskar.
Soon after spotting smoke emanating from the engine, the alert driver immediately applied brakes, jumped out of the vehicle and took the patient, a pregnant woman, her family members and Dr Rafiq Ansari out. The fire quickly engulfed the oxygen cylinders inside the vehicle which exploded leading to an inferno.
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The driver also sent them to the Jalgaon district hospital from another ambulance, which was going to the hospital. The video of the incident has been doing the rounds on social media platforms where it is seen that the bystanders were running for life after the massive explosion inside the ambulance sending flakes up into the air.
The explosion was so fierce that the windowpanes of the nearby houses shattered to pieces. Firefighters from the Jalgaon Municipal Corporation reached the spot hurriedly and doused the blaze which gutted the entire vehicle.
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