{"id":14611,"date":"2025-07-02T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/rome-bus-bursts-into-flames-after-one-year-in-service\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:07:57","slug":"rome-bus-bursts-into-flames-after-one-year-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/rome-bus-bursts-into-flames-after-one-year-in-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome bus bursts into flames after one year in service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rome bus caught fire on same day as price hike in ticket fares<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>An investigation is under way after a bus operated by Rome&#8217;s public transport company ATAC burst into flames in the Prenestino district of the capital on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There was nobody injured in the incident which occurred as the out-of-service hybrid\u00a0vehicle\u00a0was travelling along Via Prenestina, near Largo Telese, without passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-metre bus destroyed in the blaze was only one year old and was among the 110 Solaris hybrid buses that joined the ATAC fleet in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The fire also damaged the fa\u00e7ade of a nearby building, damaging balconies and causing the building&#8217;s windows to explode, reports newspaper <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Autobus in fiamme su via Prenestina: nessuna persona coinvolta, danneggiato un palazzo vicino. I <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vigilidelfuoco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"#vigilidelfuoco\">#vigilidelfuoco<\/a>, intervenuti con 3 squadre, hanno spento l\u2019<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/incendio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"#incendio\">#incendio<\/a> ed evitato pi\u00f9 gravi conseguenze<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Roma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"#Roma\">#Roma<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1luglio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"#1luglio\">#1luglio<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TgzybVpWUr\" title=\"pic.twitter.com\/TgzybVpWUr\">pic.twitter.com\/TgzybVpWUr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vigili del Fuoco (@vigilidelfuoco) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vigilidelfuoco\/status\/1940068644769222683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"July 1, 2025\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations suggest that the fire broke out on the vehicle&#8217;s roof, which houses the electronic components, however it is not excluded that the heat could have also triggered a possible short circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Buses in Rome are known to catch fire, however cases of this happening are not as regular as in the past amid efforts by the city to modernise its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon is known ironically by Romans as &#8216;Flambus&#8217;, with poor maintenance and ageing vehicles cited among the factors.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s bus fire occurred the same day as a price hike in ticket fares was introduced on Rome&#8217;s public transport network, in a move set to affect primarily tourists.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Vigili del Fuoco<\/em><\/p>\n<p>                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome bus caught fire on same day as price hike in ticket fares. An investigation is under way after a bus operated by Rome&#8217;s public transport company ATAC burst into flames in the Prenestino district of the capital on Tuesday morning. There was nobody injured in the incident which occurred as the out-of-service hybrid\u00a0vehicle\u00a0was travelling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10077,2383,10078,2423,4292,10079],"class_list":["post-14611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-bursts","tag-bus","tag-flames","tag-rome","tag-service","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}