FIRE heroes Peter Rowe and Mike Sellick leapt into action after a car burst into flames in Newton Abbot.

Motorist Charles Woodland looked on dumbfounded as the car he'd had serviced just 24 hours earlier disappeared in a confusion of smoke and flames in Wolborough Street.

Mr Rowe, 32, and from Chudleigh, and 29-year-old Mr Sellick, from Torquay, were able to grab fire extinguishers from the nearby Giant Furniture Centre and snuff out the blaze.

Flames lapped perilously close to residential properties whose occupants were alerted about the danger.