(5 Jun 2025)
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Philadelphia – 5 June 2025
1. Wide of damaged buses
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Sauer, General Manager of SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority):
"The area where this occurred within the district is an area that we used for storing buses that are slated for decommissioning."
3. Wide of press conference
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Sauer, General Manager of SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority):
“Yeah, we don’t know precisely what caused the fire at this point, but we know of the buses that were caught in the fire about 15 of them were the electric buses. So of the 40 total, 15 were electric buses.”
5. Various firefighters dousing water at site
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Sauer, General Manager of SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority):
“Yeah, I want to get them off site. I want to find a way to get them off site. I’ve already talked to our operations people about moving them off site. We have to get them off of our property away from the potential where we could have an incident like this that could have been far worse. We don’t want to lose an entire facility, and more importantly, we don’t want to hurt anyone. So we want to get these vehicles off site.”
6. Wide of water sprayed onto buses
STORYLINE:
A fast-moving fire erupted early Thursday at a transit bus lot in Philadelphia filled with dozens of decommissioned vehicles, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the sky but causing no injuries.
The fire did not impact the morning commute.
Citing an abundance of caution, the city’s Public Health Department warned nearby residents to stay indoors if possible and urged others to avoid the area. Agency inspectors were collecting samples to assess air quality and the potential for any threat.
The cause of the blaze was not immediately known but officials said that a total of 40 buses caught on fire and 15 of those were electric buses. One of the electric buses was involved in a fire incident in 2020.
Scott Sauer, General Manager of SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority), said, while they are not yet sure how the fire started, the remaining fleet of the electric buses will be removed from the site.
The lot where the fire broke out was filled with decommissioned buses scheduled for disposal. No in-service buses were in the area where the blaze occurred and none were threatened by the fire.
AP video by Matt Rourke/Tassanee Vejpongsa
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