A West Australian mother who suffered horrific burns in a firebombing attack has described how she felt her skin melt away.

Penelope Travers needed marathon surgery to repair burns to 25 per cent of her body and won't be able to work for weeks.

It was 4am when Travers' garage in Mandurah, south of Perth, exploded, sending her fleeing into the night with her pants alight.

She was trying to save her home when a spray paint can blew up in her face earlier this year.

"It felt like being fried, flesh fried, instant, quick, just burn," she said.

For 17 agonising days the single mother-of-two lay in a hospital bed in the burns unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

She was covered head-to-toe in thick dressings in between undergoing surgery and blood transfusions.

"Both my arms, the backs o

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