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What we know: A spokesperson for SEPTA stated that the Philadelphia Fire Department said a battery in one of the electric buses set off the massive fire Thursday at their largest bus depot ...
Several SEPTA buses are on fire at what officials are calling a "bus graveyard" in Philadelphia, sending a thick plume of smoke into the air.
The decommissioned SEPTA buses caught on fire in a depot off Roberts Avenue in Philadelphia's Nicetown-Tioga section Thursday ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A fire that damaged 40 decommissioned SEPTA buses at a Philadelphia storage yard on Thursday was caused by a battery on an electric bus, according to SEPTA. (The video in ...
A battery power pack in a sidelined electric bus ignited inside SEPTA’s Southern Bus Depot in November 2022, occupying Philadelphia fire crews for hours and halting the transit agency’s efforts to ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — A large 3-alarm fire at a SEPTA bus depot in Nicetown has damaged 40 decommissioned buses. According to the Philadelphia Fire Department, the fire started around 6:15 a.m ...
A similar electric bus caught fire in 2022 at a separate SEPTA depot, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The buses that caught fire were "getting ready to go to the scrap heap," said Andrew ...