The summer heat is keeping fire fighters busy as they are being called to put out a number of grass fires all over the island.

Reader Tim Micallef captured this photo of one such fire at Ta' Giorni this afternoon.

The field that caught fire, included a number of scrapped cars.

The Civil Protection Department did not consider this afternoon's fire to be a large one.

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