Gas-fuelled bus fire

PASSENGERS ran through clouds of smoke this afternoon after an OC-500 gas fuelled bus caught fire at the Esplanade Bus Port in Perth.

Fire services arrived at the Esplanade Bus Port about 2pm, alerting passengers to the severity of the situation.

Jessica Wheadon said she had to wait on the bus until the bus driver told them to get off.

“Until the fire truck came in we didn’t know that it was a fire,” Jessica said.

“We ran across the road and the black smoke – double the height of the building – was everywhere.

“It looked like the entire building was on fire with all the smoke billowing out.”

Transperth WA announced that an OC-500 fuelled bus had caught fire causing the busport to be shut down for more than an hour and asked passengers to catch their buses from the nearest bus stop to the station.

Read more on the bus fire here.