Bus catches fire near Kirkcaldy

By Kirsty McIntosh

October 19 2016, 8:46pm

October 19 2016, 8:46pm

A bus has caught fire on a Fife road.

Emergency services were called to the Orrock Quarry road between Kirkcaldy and Dalgety Bay shortly before 7.30pm.

All passengers escaped unharmed.

A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were called to a buss well alight at 7.28pm.

“Crews from Lochgelly and South Queensferry attended at the Puddledub bus stop on the Quarry road between Kirkcaldy and Dalgety Bay.

“All passengers were off the bus.”

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