A mother told of their family fortune had, after her car caught fire in the Lions cabin in a Safari Park.
Helen Clements and her two children were about 100 meters away from the lion, when the car overheated and started smoking.
Rangers rescued the trio and no visitors or animals at Longleat Safari Park were injured.
Mrs. Clements said: "it would have in the flamingos or the camels, but no, it had to go to the lion enclosure."
She was on her first visit to the Wiltshire-Safari Park with son George, nine, and 12-year-old daughter Charlie when unfolding the drama on Friday afternoon.
Although the experience said "pretty scary" Mrs Clements, of Kingswood, Gloucestershire, now the funny page could look.
Helen Clements, pictured with daughter Charlie and his son George, praised the Rangers for their helpShe initially thought that steam out of the car came and stopped when it stopped in the inside of the compartment.
"" "Then basically we thought:" it's not steam, smoke that is actually "," she told BBC News.
"It has been getting fatter and fatter, and of course come at us, and then we saw the flames."
They sound their Horn, and both she and George opened their doors, before Rangers ran towards them.
'Dilemma'"" "Unfortunately, they were shouting:" get back in the car, not the car,"she added.
"It was what a situation -? You get out of the car, because you are on fire? "And they say you back in the car, so that was the dilemma."
Her son got out of the car and ran, but Ms. Clements recalled him.
Within moments, a ranger in a vehicle and she and the children had before, threats to security inside jumped upwards pulled.
Mrs. Clements said the Rangers have been "fantastic".
They and their children not the Lions at the time see how were other cars in front of them, she added.
"I can laugh about it now, as it is only a car and we all are sure," Ms Clements said. "You laugh at the funny side.
"But -why the lion enclosure?"
Asked if she had any plans for other day trips over Easter, she joked: "I don't think anybody would want to come."
The fire was extinguished after the Lions out of the housing 
eyewitness George Lear said the Lions "not her eyes of fire and smoke" 
Rangers had to move the lions from the housing while the rescue has taken placeKevin Ashley, said of the Safari Park, the lions have been cleaned, from which the housing and the Park was closed.
He added that the fire was extinguished quickly and had violated no animals.
Visitors George Lear said: "the Lions kept their distance only and was not her eyes of fire and smoke."
"The Rangers were pushing them back, but they were reluctant on the way, as she looked interested."
He added that the air was filled with black smoke, after the car was engulfed by flames.
Also, Gabrielle Owen, of Newport, who said that it could have been a "terrible story" was in the cabin.
She praised the Rangers, described it as a "blazingly fast in dealing with the incident".