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It started about 9.15am with clouds of black acrid smoke to the extent from further up the hill the whole area was engulfed in a black smoke and for a number of minutes I couldn't even see the junction or houses at the bottom of Canonbie. The wind was blowing the smoke up Forest Hill Road and Canonbie. There were two distinct explosions and it was pretty damn scary as the clouds went black. Almost resembling the aftermath of a large amount of aero fuel burning (it was in fact due to the diesel fuel erupting, exploding and burning). For those opposite it, and in the first few houses in Canonbie it must have been even more scary. Is the worst fire I've seen and not something I'd ever like to see again.

A 242 caught fire on Cheapside late on 12th March. I spoke to the bus area supervisor who turned up and he told me generally they have one a year.

Mechanical breakage in one of the seven belts in engine compartment at rear; if the damaged part doesn't fall clear but fouls/damages other moving parts there is a rapid heat build up.

Lowlander Wrote:

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> It reminds me of a series of articles in The

> Register (a decade ago now!) after a coincidental

> spate of them:

>

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/fire_breat

> hing_buses_reattack/


Good news is that if you get stuck in New Cross - the

New Cross House is quite nice.

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