A car caught fire while the driver was in the drive-through lane at the Wendy’s Restaurant on West Main Street in Salem early Friday night.
Salem Firemen say Kent Gabriel of Mills Cart Road was able to pull out of the line to the side of the parking lot and away from the building when he saw what was happening.
A Salem Police officer who was first on the scene was able to knock out most of the fire with an extinguisher. Firemen put out the rest of the fire on their arrival.
A portion of the front of the car melted from the engine fire.