As the college students prepare to return to the school benches on this Friday, January 13, the school bus transporting them suddenly catches fire.
Leaving on the Sauve road, which leads directly to the center of Nîmes, the public vehicle finished its course, embedded in the wall of a house.
The ten teenagers and the driver are immediately evacuated.
“We received an alert around 1:30 p.m.,
tells
Le Figaro
Commander Bernard Scotto, firefighter from the Gard.
The human risk is quickly dismissed, but we still deploy a device because the bus was in the center of the city of Nîmes and close to a fence.
Four fire engines and an ambulance are deployed to the scene.
SDIS 30
Four firefighting vehicles as well as an ambulance and around twenty men were deployed on the ground.
“
The bus burned particularly quickly
”, continues the commander, whose teams came to the end of the fire in about thirty minutes.
“The bus burned particularly quickly”, continues the commander, whose teams came to the end of the fire in about thirty minutes.
SDIS 30
The children were entrusted to their family, slightly shocked, without there being any need to launch a psychological unit.
The bus was completely destroyed, the sidewalk and traffic signs damaged by heat and smoke.
