Fire

LANGSA - Allegedly because the right rear tire exploded, the bus sympathetic Star Scania type with Nopol BL 7050 AA Banda Aceh destination North Sumatra, Wednesday (13/12) before dawn burned, when arrived at Langsa Terpadu Terminal (TTL). Fortunately in the fire accident all passengers managed to get out of the bus.

Information received crossatjeh, Black Star Simpati Bus from Banda Aceh arrived at TTL, Gampong Simpang Lhee, Langsa Barat District at around 03:20 pm.

Suddenly, one of the witnesses heard a loud explosion that was allegedly due to the explosion of the right rear wheel of the bus. In fact he had time to tell the driver, that the rear wheel of the bus exploded. Bus drivers are known named Bachtiar, not directly behenti.

However, the driver immediately directs the bus steering from the Jalinsum, towards the (right turn) entrance to the rear area of ​​the TTL. Even after the blast of the wheels occurred, eyewitnesses saw on the rear wheel side of the right side of the bus equipped with this computer monitor, has started to issue sparks and the bus began to tilt.

What a hell, a few minutes later the bus was parked in the area behind the TTL began to burn, and accompanied by panicked passengers who raced down to rescue themselves from the bus. A number of residents at the TTL, including the officer of Dishub Kominfo who was on duty that night, as well as the crew of the bus driver, initially tried to extinguish by splashing water into the starting fire section, on the right rear wheel of the bus.

However, the extinguishing effort did not work, because the fire spread faster to other parts of the bus body. Dozens of minutes later came aid how many units fire car (damkar) BPBD Langsa.

Allegedly because the bus fire incident was slowly notified or entered to the fire department, and blackout assistance from the local BPBD arrived to the site after the fire had controlled almost 100 percent of the Star Simpati Bus.

Bachtiar (42), a bus driver, said the Sempati Star bus type Scania driven it, departing from Terminal Banda Aceh destination Medan, North Sumatra, Tuesday (3/2) at around 20:30 pm.

He explained that the bus was carrying 13 passengers from Medan, plus an absorbent driver, Abdullah (42), a resident of Aceh Tamiang, and himself. The first explosion did not happen on the wheels, but rather exploded per using the Air Suspension System The right rear side bus balloon.

Then, emerging sparks, which allegedly due to the waylet konshing of batrai bus referred. Sparks on the rear wheel on the right side of the bus, due to the batter wayer konsleting, so it is not monitored on the computer screen.

He continued, b alon sof breges the bus exploded in front of the TTL Dishub levy post, so he immediately turned the steering wheel to the right, into the back area of ​​the TTL, intending to fix it. But once inside the TTL area, the fire began to enlarge.

Seeing the condition of fire began to mebesar, he immediately asked all the passengers on the bus, to immediately go down and remove all their goods. Sembri, the manual extinguishment efforts continue to be done, assisted passengers and other residents in the TTL, but the fire spread faster on the bus.

According to him, when he arrived at the postal monument Langsa Langsa which is about three miles more than TTL, Bachtiar will be replaced by absorbent driver, Abdullah.

The chairman of TRC BPBD Langsa, Zainal Abidin, said, when the incident, came three people reported the bus fire at the terminal. But, if anyone calls the Fire Department or emergency number when the fire is small, to provide the bus fire information, the possibility of fire does not burn the entire bus body. [ady]