I wonder if the bus explosion might have been due to people smoking around the oxygen tanks, rather than a bus fire?
When the bus caught fire, the driver was changing a tire. He ran back on board the bus and "saved as many people as he could".
This is stark contrast to what happened to elderly abandoned in NO a few weeks ago.
No.
There is no smoking on buses.
Even those bastard smokers like me don't smoke around old and sick people.
Dumb question.
Yer prolly a rabid anti-smoker huh?
My first thought was that somebody probably was trying to sneak a smoke. Many people are in the condition of having to use oxygen tanks because of years of smoking, and it is extremely difficult to stop. My aunt with emphysema and many other health problems must carry around an oxygen tank AND she also smokes at least a pack a day. Of course she turns off her tank when she lights up, but if you're in a bus with many others on tanks you can't be sure they are all turned off.
I'm not blaming anybody, it's just a likely scenario for what happened.