Dramatic footage shows the moment a fireball turned the sky orange – with some residents saying it looked like an “apocalypse".
Firefighters were called to a street in Stockton-on-Tees at 2:35am on Sunday after three motors were torched in the dead of night.
TeesideLive claims it took over an hour to get the blaze under control. The large fire caused speculation on social media after a video of an "explosion" was recorded by CCTV cameras over two-miles away.
A bright orange light filled the night sky across Norton at around 2.35am. Comments on social media compared the video to "like the apocalypse" as well as reports of a loud "bang". "The explosion was very loud and sounded like there was a gas bottle in one of them," one person said.
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