No one had noticed the car on fire until the first tire exploded around 10pm. At that point the residents of via Bari, a short, very quiet street in the Santa Lucia neighbourhood, in Assemini, raised the alarm and called the Fire Brigade, but the car, a Smart, was now engulfed in flames.
The worry while waiting for the firefighters to arrive was all for the small wooden house a meter away from the car. Only the intervention of the owner of the ground floor apartment who wet the house prevented the spread of the flames.
There are no injuries and the car is not reported stolen. The Cagliari Fire Brigade and the Carabinieri of the Cagliari mobile radio unit intervened on site, the origin of the flames is not clear.
