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Three people are dead and 16 others were injured in a collision involving a city bus in Calgary on Thursday, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The fiery, fatal crash happened just after 1 p.m. in the city’s northeast community of Saddle Ridge.<\/p>\n
Three people were declared dead at the scene. Ten were transported to hospital via ambulance, with one in life-threatening condition and nine others in non-life-threatening condition. <\/p>\n
Five others were assessed for non-life-threatening injuries at the scene, and were later transported to hospital for further assessment. <\/p>\n
A Calgary Police Service member also sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The fire occurred on the 800 block of Saddletowne Circle N.E., near the neighbourhood\u2019s fire station.<\/p>\n
The collision involved two city buses and multiple vehicles, Calgary Police Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward said during a press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n
“I’ve been a police officer 36 years, and I think this is probably the biggest scene I’ve worked on in relation to the collision that we’ve got here,” he said.<\/p>\n
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3 killed in bus fire in northeast Calgary<\/p>\n
A City of Calgary bus fire on Oct. 15, 2026, left three people dead and several others injured. Maxwell Calinisan was nearby when the incident occurred and captured this video.<\/p>\n
Fire crews initially responded to reports of a motor vehicle collision, but pivoted to a fire response when they realized one of the buses was aflame, Calgary Fire Chief Steve Dongworth said. In total, 12 units responded. <\/p>\n
A hazardous materials unit was also called to the scene, Dongworth said, as the bus on fire ran on liquid natural gas.<\/p>\n
“It was fairly involved,” Dongworth said. “It wasn’t a catastrophic fire, but it was a serious fire inside, particularly the liquid natural gas bus, not surprisingly. There was also a small fire in the other bus.”<\/p>\n
The driver of the second bus was trapped and needed to be extricated, Dongworth added. <\/p>\n
‘It was just burning everything’<\/p>\n
Maxwell Calinisan was in a nearby Shoppers Drug Mart when store staff told him and other customers there was a fire nearby and they would need to evacuate to the store’s parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“When we first came out, I looked to my left and the fire was just on the bus, and then we just ran as far as possible in the parking lot,” he told CBC News.<\/p>\n
“The fire was pretty much on top of the bus,” he said. “It was just burning everything.”<\/p>\n
Emergency crews arrived soon after, he said.<\/p>\n
Both Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas offered their condolences in separate social media posts. <\/p>\n
Police continue to investigate the cause of the incident. <\/p>\n
Access to Saddletowne Circle is closed for \u201ca significant amount of time,\u201d police said, advising people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-934515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}