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Passenger evacuated after bus fire

6:35pm Tuesday 6th May 2008

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A BUS carrying ten passengers had to be evacuated after a fire broke out.

A small fire started in the engine compartment of the vehicle at around 5pm as it travelled along Station Road, Beaconsfield, close to the junction with Candlemas Lane.

The driver was able to remove everyone from the bus and start to put the fire out before a crew from Beaconsfield Fire Station finished the job.

Frasier Pearson, head of communications at Bucks Fire and Rescue, said: "Before it had taken hold, the driver was able to stop the vehicle safely, see everyone off it and without opening the engine compartment, started to tackle the fire with a foam extinguisher. So he did all the right things.

"The fire fighters then finished off with the hose reel."

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kazza, high wycombe says...
7:34pm Tue 6 May 08

shame it wasn;t parked near eden!!!

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the inspector, High Wycombe says...
8:34pm Tue 6 May 08

Oh please! all this anti-Eden talk is just getting boring now. Get over it or move!

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Ivor, says...
9:52pm Tue 6 May 08

the inspector wrote:
Oh please! all this anti-Eden talk is just getting boring now. Get over it or move!
No. It just shows the level of feeling against the complex in the town. Perhaps something should be done to address the problem of the complex rather than asking the towns people to move?

If the towns people are being asked to move as a result of the complex then firstly it is an admission of the failure of the complex and secondly it will only stoke up even greater anger in the towns people against the complex.

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woooooopy, wycombe says...
11:17pm Tue 6 May 08

what ARE you going on about?! this is an article about a bus catching fire, not another rant about Eden! I agree with the inspector, all this anti-Eden stuff is getting rather boring now!

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R of Wycombe, High Wycombe says...
6:42am Wed 7 May 08

It's simple really, Eden is like Marmite, (and i don't mean the guy who posts on here ), you either love it or hate it, either way you have to accept it's there for those that want it. If you don't want it, then just walk past it.

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sr, says...
11:07am Wed 7 May 08

colour?

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R of Wycombe, High Wycombe says...
11:43am Wed 7 May 08

colour?
Blackened i'd say

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Julie Rogers, High Wycombe says...
1:26pm Wed 7 May 08

Back to the fire on the bus. I think the driver should be commended for his fast thinking & actions that brought it to a safe conclusion.

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the inspector, High Wycombe says...
2:35pm Wed 7 May 08

Indeed Julie, and thankfully no one was hurt.

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Tardis, Princes Risborough, Bucks says...
8:32pm Wed 7 May 08

If the bus companies keep shipping 13 year old+ buses into the local depots as 'new' then we should expect breakdowns and the odd fire or two as the norm. Disgraceful; let's have some new buses- 300 route take note!

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CHEWBY, HW says...
8:49pm Wed 7 May 08

Which Bus company was this?

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Kadoogan, Wycombe says...
9:02am Thu 8 May 08

I would guess it was an Arriva bus, as I'm not sure Carousel serve Beaconsfield. Arriva buses break down on a regular basis anyway. I pine for the days of Wycombe Bus Company. They weren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but their buses pretty much always turned up in my experience. With Arriva you can be standing in the bus station waiting for a bus to leave, then when you finally ask at the 'helpdesk' they tell you they don't have enough drivers, or the bus has broken down. So why not tell the people that are waiting? Arriva are a joke, and unfortunately have become a bigger joke since the new station opened.

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