Firefighters called to 'blazing bus' on the A3(M) near Waterlooville
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Crews were alerted to the incident at 8.30pm after a motorist reported smoke coming from a bus on the A3(M) southbound near the Waterlooville junction.
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Crew manager Glenn Kavanagh, of Havant fire station, said: ‘We were called by a motorist who though a bus was on fire. He said he saw smoke coming from the engine.
‘When we arrived, there was no fire. There had been an engine fault and there was steam coming from the engine. But that was it.’
There were no passengers on board the bus at the time, crew manager Kavanagh added.
The call was one of five incidents for Havant, which included a grass fire, unattended bonfire and two false alarms.
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