St. Petersburg, 29 Jul. A passenger bus caught fire on the Pulkovskoye Highway in St. Petersburg, no one was injured, the State Unitary Enterprise Passazhiravtotrans reported on Saturday.
«The driver acted according to the instructions, the Ministry of Emergency Situations was called to the place, there were no victims,» the representative of the company said.
The interlocutor of the agency did not specify the route of the bus and the number of passengers.
As reported on Saturday by the Department of the Russian Guard for the North-Western District, the National Guard helped put out the burning bus on the Pulkovo Highway.
“During the course of the public security service on the patrol route, the National Guard saw a burning bus and transmitted this information to the emergency services. telegram channel.
As specified, the fire was localized.
According to the Volgabus press service, the bus that caught fire has nothing to do with the company. «The bus that caught fire on July 29 in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg on the Pulkovskoye highway is not a Volgabus and has nothing to do with our company. It was produced by another company,» the press service said.
Earlier in July, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Kirill Polyakov reported that 12 cases of passenger bus fires were recorded in the city, not a single passenger was injured. Passazhiravtotrans suspended the operation of a batch of about 30 Volgabus buses received in 2022 until all defects are corrected. According to Volgabus, all buses were checked from July 14 to July 18 as part of a specially conducted recall campaign, the check proved the reliability of Volgabus cars and did not reveal any violations in the bus units and assemblies.