Driver deals with bus fire
A Kaitaia school bus driver just had time to drop his last passengers off at Kauri Flat, north of Awanui, on Monday afternoon before grabbing his fire extinguisher and dousing the flames that erupted from the dashboard.
There was nothing left to do by the time police and the Kaitaia Fire Brigade
The drama was over by the time police and the Kaitaia Fire Brigade arrived.
arrived, the driver confirming that neither he nor any of his passengers had been injured. Damage to the bus appeared to be limited to the dashboard.
It was the second time the Petricevich driver had had a brush with fire; some
years ago it took a major effort by the brigade to douse the blaze that erupted aboard the bus he was driving on the Awanui Straight when a bird’s nest in a roof vent heated to the point of combustion.