Four buses on fire in Baerum – TV 2

It burned four buses Furubakken in Bekkestua in Bærum on Monday night.

The buses are hybrid buses and stands on Norway Bus’ area. There were six buses in the yard, and four of these caught fire. The fire is now extinguished.

– It is extinguished, but the fire department operates by extinguishing the place. It was fairly high temperature, said operations Tone Kavli in Asker and Bærum Police to TV2 5:15 am on Monday.

Pending traffic problems

The buses are hybrid buses, and according Police there Nettbuss owns them.

Police said that it expected traffic problems in the morning hours as a result of the four buses are decommissioned, but they do not know which routes they were going to operate .

The images TV2 has taken shows that it burned in red buses, serving lines within Oslo.

Can have occurred while charging

The police said that the fire may have occurred in connection with the charge of the buses.

– It has begun to burn in one of the buses that were to charge, so it’s possible that it began to burn as a result of charging. There is no suspicion that it is set on fire, says Kavli.

Got early control of fire

The police was notified of the fire from the fire brigade in time 2:41 on Monday night. An hour later the fire brigade control.

– They managed to restrict the fire so it does not spread to the other two buses, says Kavli.

There is no information that people should have been close.