This is the terrifying moment a homeowner was forced to flee for her life, just seconds before a wildfire swallowed her family’s ‘forever home’ in Stourbridge.

Dramatic footage captured by a doorbell camera shows mother-of-two Rose-Anne Vinten racing through the garden of the property, which she and her husband Richard had purchased just five months earlier.

Less than a minute later, the house was engulfed in flames, leaving it ‘completely gutted’.

Footage shared by ITV shows flames ripping through the garden and tearing washing from the line as they rapidly approached the house. Inside, the rooms were left reduced to ash.

The Vintens’ property, situated just yards from ‘millionaire’s row’, the most expensive street in the area, was among nearly 40 homes destroyed or damaged by wildfires that swept across the West Midlands on Thursday.

Fifty-four patients were treated by paramedics, while six firefighters were taken to hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion following their overnight efforts.

Britain continues to face a ‘very high’ wildfire risk amid record temperatures, with large parts of the country being described as a tinderbox.

Last night, millions of mobile phone users received an emergency alert warning them not to light anything that could potentially trigger a wildfire, including barbecues, campfires and fireworks. Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has called on the military to help tackle a major blaze burning across south Wales.

Dramatic doorbell footage captures mother-of-two Rose-Anne Vinten running through the garden of their ‘forever home’, which they had bought just five months earlier.

Seconds later, flames can be seen consuming the family’s property in Stourbridge.

Pictured: Rose-Anne Vinten with her husband Richard. They lost their ‘forever home’ just five months after buying it.

In Stourbridge, Ms Vinten said she only became aware of the fire after her nine-year-old daughter told her, ‘look at all the smoke in the horses field’.

After getting the children out of the house, Ms Vinten returned to try to wet down the fence in an effort to prevent the flames from spreading.

She said: ‘It was really scary to be honest, it felt like I was in a movie.’

‘I was really scared but I knew at the same time I needed to be brave for my kids, because my daughter was really worried.

‘When I went over to next door and saw them just standing there at the window, looking and they could see that their house was on fire, so I had to just hold it all in.’

Mr Vinten said he did not fully understand the scale of the damage until he returned to the property to retrieve his insulin.

The blaze, driven by straw-like grass and tinder-dry woodland during the hottest day of the year, spread through parts of Stourbridge within minutes.

The fire is believed to have begun in a nearby farmer’s field before moving east across Ounty John Lane, where houses were engulfed.

It then pushed northwards, crossing the historic Stourbridge Golf Club before reaching the gardens of homes on Melrose Avenue.

Emergency services received thousands of 999 calls, while some residents were forced to escape their properties.

This morning, the Prince of Wales issued a personal statement thanking emergency workers fighting wildfires across the country.

He said: ‘Our thoughts are with everyone affected, particularly those who have lost their homes, and with those working tirelessly to protect communities, homes and the countryside.’

A drone image shows burnt-out houses following the major grass fire in Stourbridge.

Pictured: Robin and Loxie Williams, who lost their Stourbridge home.

A drone view shows a burnt-out house and cars after a large grass fire spread to several homes in Stourbridge during the hottest day of the year.

Stourbridge residents Robin and Loxie Williams said the house they had lived in for 26 years had been destroyed, with ‘everything in it’ lost.

The couple are staying with their daughter while waiting for an update from their insurance company.

Loxie said: ‘We’re stopping with my daughter at the moment but I don’t know how long for because she’s got her family.

‘It’s just difficult. Everything has gone, completely and it’s just ruined.’

Another homeowner, Paul Cliff, said that only minutes after a local WhatsApp group began filling with messages about a wildfire in a nearby farmer’s field, his roof was already on fire.

He phoned his wife Connie, 60, telling her he was struggling to breathe because of the thick black smoke.

‘It was all adrenaline,’ Mr Cliff told The Times.

‘I had to just focus on how am I gonna get off my drive without getting burned because there were bushes burning on either side of the drive.

‘I had a split second thought, ‘Do I just get my car out?’ But then I couldn’t get through the electric gates [because the fire had disabled them], so I quickly wrote that off and just ran.’

Meanwhile, Nigel John Wright, 61, was in Majorca when he was forced to watch footage from his Ring doorbell as flames consumed his home.

Firefighters examine a burnt-out house in Stourbridge on Friday.

Residents carry their possessions after a huge blaze in Stourbridge, West Midlands.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham, centre, walks with West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker, right, as he speaks with Chief Fire Officer Simon Tuhill, left, during a visit to Stourbridge.

His wife Laura left her phone behind as she ran from the house they had owned for 26 years before driving away.

‘I watched my back fence catch light, with flames 20ft in the air as they travelled down the side of my back garden, and then the signal went on my Ring cameras and that was that,’ Mr Wright said.

Around 100 firefighters were deployed to fight the Stourbridge inferno, and a major incident was declared.

Residents reported that ash was ‘raining down’ as they struggled through the ‘very strong’ smoke.

Emergency services are investigating claims that the fires may have been connected to Year 13 students lighting barbecues and burning notepads after receiving their exam results.

A TikTok trend has seen some young people record themselves setting paperwork alight, and fire investigators are now considering whether the activity may have played a role in the chaos.

West Midlands Fire Service confirmed that the rumours had been passed on to fire crews. However, investigators have so far found no direct evidence supporting the theory and remain open-minded.

WMFS told the Birmingham Mail: ‘At this stage, we would not want to blame young people or any particular groups of people but our investigations are at an early stage.’

Meanwhile, the Government has introduced a temporary ban on the sale of disposable barbecues, describing them as a ‘significant risk to the public’ during the ongoing heatwave, while Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called in the military.

Mr Burnham told reporters in Stourbridge yesterday afternoon: ‘Britain is a tinderbox right now, and please just have that in your mind.

‘We’re going to go into the rest of the weekend… This is not over by any means.

‘We’ve got 37 fires smouldering around the country, so it could be more. So please bear that in mind at all times.’