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Posted on 06/05/2025 1:05:05 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Investigators are working to uncover what caused a fleet of decommissioned SEPTA buses to catch fire at a Philadelphia bus depot on Thursday morning.
SEPTA GM Scott Sauer said over a dozen of the torched buses were Protera-manufactured electric buses that he said have not been used in several years. A total of 40 buses were damaged in the fire, sparking air quality concerns that the city's health department says are still unhealthy for nearby residents.
No one was injured in the fire at SEPTA's largest bus depot that runs 24-hours a day.
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“SEPTA GM Scott Sauer said over a dozen of the torched buses were Protera-manufactured electric buses that he said have not been used in several years.”
So did they leave the fire producing, almost impossible to extinguish, Lithium Ion batteries in them.
Insurance payoff arson....call Rockford, or Jessica Fletcher.
A decommissioned fleet of brand new buses. Yep, taxpayer money wisely spent. Now give us more.
Banacek.
Electric vehicles... Amazing... Decommissioned buses? Who paid for it...I guess the American taxpayers...
SEPTA as I heard once is ‘The Society to Eliminate Passenger Trains Altogether’. It was on a Railroad website...
SEPTA, like MARTA in Atlanta and the Washington DC Metro system*. Is a jobs program that provides transportation service as an afterthought. These mothballed electric buses… did anyone even think to disconnect or better yet remove, the batteries?!
*: local DC government announced this week it is shutting down a barely ten-year old street car line installed at the cost of tens of millions. It’s to be replaced by electric buses.
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I saw this fire on way down to Wildwood today while I was on the el.
SEPTA is septic!
We call it SEPTIC
The problem can’t possibly be the electric buses, we are constantly preached to by the Tesla fanbois that EVs are perfectly safe, and the fire risk is minimal.
“Air quality concerns” LOL
Hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen cyanide as emitted by lithium ion battery fires are perfectly safe to breathe.
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