JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local woman who was hurt in an explosion at muffler shop on Tuesday is speaking out.
Deborah Shor, her husband and their dog were sitting in the waiting room at Rainbow Muffler when the auto shop caught on fire. An experience filled with flames and smoke that Shor can't get out of her head.
"I'm shaky, very shaky. I keep living it over and over again cause it came so close ... So close," Shor said.
Shor and her husband, Lou, were inside Rainbow Muffler when there was an explosion and the building caught on fire.
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"The ball of fire was coming right towards the waiting room we were in," Shor said.
Shor and her husband tried to get out the front door, but it was locked, so they had to escape through the car bay, which was already on fire.
"I ran, I just got hit with a black ball of smoke and it just took my breath away and I just kept running. I said am I going to die or am I not going to die. And I just kept thinking am I through it am through it and I turned around I got out of it," Shor said.
Shor suffered smoke inhalation and spent over eight hours in the hospital. Wednesday, she said she's thankful to be home with her family.
"It makes you think twice about everything cause my daughter's visiting from New York and I just keep thinking that she could have gotten a call, saying, 'Your parents were just killed in an explosion' ... so it just makes you think twice the little things, don't sweat the small stuff," Shor said.
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