Family issues warning about wheelie bin fires after blaze destroys 'treasured' camper van and damages home

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Chorlton, discovered the blue bin on his driveway was on fire after hearing a loud bang outside his home on Upper Chorlton Street.By the time he spotted the fire, Jason said it had already spread to the Volkswagen Transporter van he and his family had converted into a camper van.“I went upstairs to check on the kids as I initially thought they might have fallen out of bed but they were fine,” Jason tells the M.E.N.“I heard an alarm going off outside so I went out to have a look and realised the alarm was coming from my van as I saw some flames coming out of the bonnet.”Jason says he then ran upstairs to get his wife and two children, aged one and three, out of the house as he was worried the fire would escalate.He says that by that time the.