Parramatta Road Bus Fire

[Linto63]

Transit Systems Volgren bodied Volvo B12 arctic 2001 destroyed by fire on Broadway.

[boronia]

"Destroyed" as in totally. Ch 9News tonight showed it alight from end to end except the engine area

[kypros1992]

Extinguished photo here:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erb7wNaVQAA ... name=large

Possibly a wheel well incident?

OTSI 2019 report on bus fires: https://www.otsi.nsw.gov.au/sites/defau ... REPORT.pdf

[ScaniaGrenda]

A State Transit Volvo B12BLEA has caught fire this afternoon at Glebe

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/ ... 56tav.html

[captainch]

A BUS CAUGHT FIRE in glebe point road this evening driver got every body got off the bus ok...............THE BUS WAS COMPLEATLY DESTROYED ABC SYDNEY NEWS, GOOD JOB BY THE POOR BUS DRIVER it was red ARTIC BUS.saw this on ABC TOWNSVILLE NEWS TONIGHT.!

[busbum]

Its a TSA bus

[busbum]

I would put my money on front aircon unit

[ScaniaGrenda]

It was 2001 ST from Leichhardt if we're going by the fleet-lists. 2009 B12BLEA Volgren CR228L.

[ScaniaGrenda]

Whoops my bad, not really up to date on all the STA / TSA stuff heh.

[moa999]

ABC clips.
One way to get rid of the Metrobuses

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=520571648876732

[Bus-1809]

A little bit of hunting shows it to be 2001-ST, the class leader

[Swift]

Why it's the driver being treated like a hero? Surely there was plenty of warning. Stop bus, open doors, out.
How challenging is that??

[boronia]

Driver interviewed on one of the TV news, said smoke started coming out of dashboard.
Just 3 people on the bus, so big "save". At least driver did the right thing and evacuated the bus early.

[Swift]

All buses should have a fire extinguisher. Did he use it?
It might have saved a 3/4 $million bus.

[boronia]

The bus would have at least two extinguishers (one in the cab and one at the rear) . But they are small, and not much use if the fire is within the frame somewhere- it can be well advanced before it becomes noticeable inside.

[Linto63]

We should just be grateful no-one was hurt, who cares about a nearly fully depreciated tin box. May have been a less happy story if it had occurred when the bus had a heavier load outbound. Whether by good luck or good management, it came to rest in the centre lane, had it been in the kerbside lane, the multi-storey building adjacent may have gone up.

As anybody that has ever used a hand held fire extinguisher will attest, they will put out something created by a dropped cigarette, but anything stronger, forget it...fire wins.

[Swift]

That is another good thing with the Mercedes dashes. They are isolated units suspended from the steering column. These new computer buses have to integrate everything into the front of the body so any hidden electrical fires get a chance to take hold while concealed inner all that cladding to make the bus look as car like as possible rather than the commercial vehicle that they are.