{"id":864,"date":"2010-09-04T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2010-09-04T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:04:33","slug":"bus-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Bus fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how common, or should that be rare, they are?  Are there any statistics for different types of vehicle fire &#8211; cars, lorries, buses etc. based on fires per 1,000 vehicles?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday one of our local buses, a Wilts &#038; Dorset double-decker on the Active 8 route between Andover and Salisbury, caught fire according to BBC News under the dramatic headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-11185006\">Passengers flee double-decker bus fire near Andover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/busfire.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/busfire.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then this morning we have another BBC News story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-11187237\">London bendy bus catches fire outside Victoria station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flvPlayer\">\t\t\t\t<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wflvplayer\/player-viral.swf?file=http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/video\/bendyfire.flv&amp;autoStart=false;\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wflvplayer\/player-viral.swf?file=http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/video\/bendyfire.flv&amp;autoStart=false;\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how common, or should that be rare, they are? Are there any statistics for different types of vehicle fire &#8211; cars, lorries, buses etc. based on fires per 1,000 vehicles? Yesterday one of our local buses, a Wilts &#038; Dorset double-decker on the Active 8 route between Andover and Salisbury, caught fire according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}