Traffic Incident - car burst into flames?

At about 6:30pm, I saw a strange scene: firemen were dousing a small car in the middle of a road with water from a large hose connected to a fire engine and there were police officers around.  Here is where the incident happened (see the green arrow):

Map: Thanks to my iPhone GPS and courtesy of google plus's fantastic geo-location. The green arrow is where I took the first two pics from but for the last pic, I moved closer to Queen Street.

I can only surmise that the small car must have caught fire and the fire engine came just in time.  Fortuitous?  No, this is Singapore, remember?