New Minas firefighters made short work of a car fire Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in New Minas. The front end of the vehicle was involved when firefighters arrived on the scene and despite several other vehicles parked nearly, they were able to extinguish the blaze without any additional damage. Fire chief Jim Redmond determined the fire was electrical in nature, caused by a short in the wiring. There were no injuries.

John DeCoste