{"id":591082,"date":"2026-08-12T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591082\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:10:09","slug":"dublin-bus-carrying-passengers-evacuated-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591082\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Bus carrying passengers evacuated after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dublin Bus carrying a number of passengers was evacuated after it went on fire this morning.<\/p>\n

The E1 bus went on fire on Morehampton Road in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, shortly after 9am this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services attended the scene and the fire was extinguished around an hour later.<\/p>\n

Nobody was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n

A passenger travelling on the bus described hearing a “bang” followed by a “jolt”.<\/p>\n

“A couple of young lads, around 14, 15, then said ‘look there’s smoke’ so I stood up, everyone stood up.<\/p>\n

“We all got off, it was done in a calm manner,” the passenger said.<\/p>\n

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\nThe bus caught fire this morning<\/p>\n

Diversions are in place on both the E1 and E2 routes, and the Morehampton Road has been closed as a result of the blaze.<\/p>\n

Two Dublin Fire Brigade units attended the scene as well as an ambulance and senior officer from Donnybrook Fire Station.<\/p>\n

Dublin Bus has said it has begun a full investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n

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\nEmergency services at the scene<\/p>\n

In a statement, Dublin Bus said: “Dublin Bus can confirm that there was fire on a bus this morning on Route E1 on Morehampton Road.<\/p>\n

“All passengers were evacuated from the bus, emergency services were called and the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n

“There are no injuries. Dublin Bus has begun a full investigation into the incident.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Dublin Bus added that the bus was not an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n

Diversions are in place for E1 and E2 routes on northbound services until further notice.<\/p>\n

Northbound<\/p>\n

Divert via Waterloo Road, Baggot Street, turning onto Pembroke Street Upper and back onto normal route<\/p>\n

Stops 906, 907, 908 and 909 not in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin Bus carrying a number of passengers was evacuated after it went on fire this morning. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-591082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}