E-Cigarette Explodes Into Massive Fireball (VIDEO)

This Is What Happens When An E-Cigarette Explodes
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This is the moment a ball of fire narrowly missed a barmaid's head when an e-cigarette exploded.

Laura Baty, 18, was serving a customer at the bar at the Buck Inn Hotel in Richmond, North Yorkshire, when she heard a massive bang and saw fire coming towards her.

Before she had time to think she felt the heat on her arm and started running away.

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Miss Baty said: "I was about to give somebody their change and I heard the bang. I could see the fire coming at me and I felt the heat as I ran away," she told the Yorkshire Press.

"I started crying hysterically and my arm was all black. My dress caught on fire as I ran away and I just didn't know what was happening.

"A customer came and took me in to the bathroom to calm me down. She washed down my arm which was all black and I still didn't know what had happened."

Miss Baty, who has worked at the hotel for nearly two years, added: "I thought the fuse-box had blown up or a firework had gone off. Everybody was just so shocked."