Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled three-metre high flames engulfing a car yesterday.
Three fire engines were called to the burning car parked in a driveway just off Hook Road in Epsom at 2.30pm.
The fire spread from the car to the fence and melted the gutters of a nearby house.
Firefighter Tom Howe, from Epsom fire station, said: "The car was 100 per cent damaged by fire.
"Because it was on a driveway there was a small amount of damage to surrounding property."
A Leatherhead firefighter described the remains of the car as a ‘crispy shell’.
He said: "The fence was burnt away but damage to the house was not too bad. The guttering started to melt.
"I believe it was an electrical fire from the car."
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