Western Standard - Calgary fire chief details Saddleridge bus crash that killed three

00:00:00.000 Just to supplement what Staff Sergeant Woodward said, Calgary Fire also got a call at around 13.10, 1.10 p.m. this afternoon.

00:00:10.380 As you can see, the fire station, as you mentioned, is very close to the scene, so we had a very quick response time.

00:00:17.220 The crew was mobilised to a motor vehicle collision immediately after exiting the station.

00:00:23.500 they realized it was also a fire so they proceeded to attack the fire called for more resources

00:00:31.020 they were involved in extricating the bus driver who is who's taken some very serious injuries

00:00:37.980 and they also right away we mobilized some of our hazard materials folks because one of the

00:00:42.860 buses is a liquid natural gas bus so we wanted someone to secure the those those gas tanks on

00:00:49.820 the bus and make sure that's made safe as well um we had a pretty quick knockdown on the fire

00:00:55.820 and uh yeah if there's any questions happy to answer i believe questions about casualties and

00:01:00.620 what caused the accident though to uh the folks at dhs as well as of course uh staff sergeant

00:01:05.500 woolen to clarify both buses lng buses or just one as far as i'm aware just the one do you have

00:01:12.220 do you have a number of how many pro members and responded to this and how many machines

00:01:17.180 uh i can get you more accurate numbers there were there were six or seven of our vehicles here at

00:01:21.820 the height uh between heavy rescue or technical rescue hazmat engines uh rescues uh i would say

00:01:29.020 there were seven at minimum seven of our trucks here at one time which have mostly been demobilized

00:01:33.820 now uh just for different types of support and like i said the hazmat resource as well

00:01:38.620 how big was the fire and how long did it take i mean it was i've seen uh i've seen some video

00:01:43.900 footage it was it was fairly uh involved it wasn't uh it wasn't a catastrophic fire but it was a

00:01:50.140 serious fire inside uh inside particularly the uh liquid natural gas bus uh not surprising and uh

00:01:56.780 there was also a small fire in the other bus as well and how long did it take to put it out like

00:02:01.020 i don't know how many but it would have been a relatively quick knockdown in this circumstance

Western Standard - October 15, 2026