She was pulled from the rubble by bystanders who heard her screaming. She suffered cracked ribs, a punctured lung, fractured sternum and other cuts and bruises and is recovering in hospital in Aberdeen.

As demolition of what was left of the hotel began today, her mother Linda (51) told how Danielle had previously come through three serious car accidents, two terrorist attacks and two IRA bombs.

“No matter what gets thrown at Danielle she always bounces back,” said Linda. “She’s given me a lot of sleepless nights. But I’m beginning to worry that she might have used up her nine lives by now.”

Danielle had been working at the hotel for just three weeks and had gone into the cellar to change a beer barrel moments before the blast.

But it’s not the first time she’s been involved in an explosion. When she was eight and on a trip to London with the Brownies, an IRA bomb exploded nearby.

Two years later, history repeated itself on another Brownies trip to the capital. Both times Danielle walked away unscathed.

She was also on a train close to where terrorists blew up another train in Barcelona in the late 1990s.

And she’d just left Glasgow Airport before terrorists drove a car into it in 2007.

She has also survived three car accidents. One when she was 18 and another two when 21. She suffered a broken rib in one.

“Wherever Danielle is there seems to be a calamity,” said Linda. “Excitment seems to follow her around. She’s driven her car into a ditch and twice collided with cars.

“When she was younger she fell and her teeth went through her lip. Her hospital file must be like a long novel.”

Shopowner Linda has been making daily visits to her daughter’s bedside with Danielle’s boyfriend Kristopher Paul.

The hotel was just days away from its official re-opening after nearly 12 months of refurbishment when the suspected gas blast happened.