BEST Bus Catches Fire at Kannamwar Nagar in Vikhroli, Nobody Injured; Third Fire Incident in Five Months
A senior official said that the fire was due to a short circuit. "The wet lease bus caught fire due to a wiring issue," he said. The bus was ferrying passengers on route number 397. "While the bus was going from Vikhroli station towards Kannamwar Nagar, at around 3.25 pm near Pragati Vidyalaya, the wiring in the bus cabin caught fire, causing the cabin to be completely filled with smoke. The bus driver and conductor showed presence of mind and controlled the fire using the fire extinguisher equipment in the bus and also informed the fire brigade about the incident.
They also alerted the passengers on time and they got down," an official said. No one was injured in this incident.
The incident came a month after another BEST bus—a double-decker—caught fire. In that incident, nobody was injured, and prima facie, it was found that there was friction between the loose manhole cover (on the road) and the battery area underneath the bus.
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In April, when a wet lease electric single-decker bus caught fire near Churchgate, a senior BEST official took serious cognisance and asked for a detailed inquiry report from senior officials of the traffic division. He also directed officials to check all other electric buses from the supplier.
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