The Almuñécar fire service was called out to a car that had burst into flames on the A-7 access road from the Taramay roundabout.
The fire station received the call out around 13.35h yesterday from a a driver to say that he had just passed a car on the road side with the flames coming from under the bonnet.
The three fire personnel managed to stop the fire from gutting the vehicle; a Peugeot, saloon car.
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)