A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman confirmed firefighters were called to the vehicle fire near the intersection of Pegasus Place and Cobbora Road about 5.15am and the blaze was extinguished a short time later.

The woman told the Daily Liberal she was among residents who were woken by what sounded like gunshots.

"You could hear the car's horn going off and there was smoke and flames coming from the car," she said.

The woman said she had considered getting a petition together to call for the area between Twickenham Drive and Pegasus Place to be fenced off.

"It's not well lit and it's used as a getaway path once people have broken into houses and stolen things, they walk through the alleyways and disappear," she said.

"There was one family around here who were always jumping fences, we never saw them use a door, and in fact we stopped a bloke getting into a neighbour's yard and then the police were chasing him ... he used it (the area) as a getaway, it's convenient to jump the fence.

"It's not just that, you have kids roaring about there on motorbikes without helmets.

"It would just be awesome if it had a massive fence around it."

Other residents took to social media to detail their own experiences with the area in question, including one who wrote on the Dubbo Crime Reports Facebook page: "Anything to stop the thieves disappearing easily, the vehicles being torched, the lovely characters that walk through screaming abuse at their kids after school and the kids setting off the dogs and doing burnouts on motorbikes," wrote another.