Sorry to hear about the fire. I'm amazed and glad you got it under control. My parents had a car (american piece of junk) catch on fire, carburator, and it engulfed the engine compartment within ten minutes. It's pretty scary!
can't say i've heard about mini fires. and glad this was a small one.
For getting the pix off your phone, send a text message/multimedia message with the picture attached to your email address. It might come through as a mime attachment. just rename it .jpg and you're ready to go ... or at least, that's how i save my phone pix from my cingular phone