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If you drove up or down Hwy 330 this weekend, you probably noticed a LOT of yellow school buses on the highway. Snow Valley was hosting a Tough Mudder competition, and Snow Valley's parking lot was not big enough for all the contestants and spectators, so buses were provided to shuttle them to/from an overflow parking area at the bottom of the hill.
After leaving the Ol Swimming Hole on Saturday afternoon (see the separate post on that trip), I headed down the hill toward home. About a mile before reaching the forest boundary at the bottom of the hill, traffic slowed considerably. I rounded a bend and saw a yellow school bus pulled over in a turnout, and smoke was pouring out the back of it. There were about a dozen cars ahead of me. They drove past the burning bus, but by the time I got near the bus, I decided that the risk of an explosion was too great, so I pulled over (three other vehicles behind me were not as cautious and they pulled around me and drove past the burning bus). I realized that the 5B:C fire extinguisher in my Jeep was not going to be effective on the burning bus, so I waited and watched the action. It took a few minutes before the first fire vehicle responded, and I decided to take out my iPhone and snap some pictures.
This Forest Service vehicle was the first responder on the scene. They parked their vehicle on the other side of the burning bus and began an attack on the fire from that side of the bus.
This engine company was the next to arrive on the scene a few minutes later:
This video shows how stubborn the fire was. It looked like the fire was knocked down about one minute into the video, but as the smoke cleared, more flames became visible. Click on the picture to launch the video:
After leaving the Ol Swimming Hole on Saturday afternoon (see the separate post on that trip), I headed down the hill toward home. About a mile before reaching the forest boundary at the bottom of the hill, traffic slowed considerably. I rounded a bend and saw a yellow school bus pulled over in a turnout, and smoke was pouring out the back of it. There were about a dozen cars ahead of me. They drove past the burning bus, but by the time I got near the bus, I decided that the risk of an explosion was too great, so I pulled over (three other vehicles behind me were not as cautious and they pulled around me and drove past the burning bus). I realized that the 5B:C fire extinguisher in my Jeep was not going to be effective on the burning bus, so I waited and watched the action. It took a few minutes before the first fire vehicle responded, and I decided to take out my iPhone and snap some pictures.
This Forest Service vehicle was the first responder on the scene. They parked their vehicle on the other side of the burning bus and began an attack on the fire from that side of the bus.
This engine company was the next to arrive on the scene a few minutes later:
This video shows how stubborn the fire was. It looked like the fire was knocked down about one minute into the video, but as the smoke cleared, more flames became visible. Click on the picture to launch the video:
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