a bus catches fire in front of Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport

The vehicle caught fire “on the road accesses in front of terminal 2E”, explained the ADP group.

By Le Figaro

Published on 05/21/2023 at 4:19 p.m.update on 05/21/2023 at 5:30 p.m.

The incident was reported on social media. Shared on Twitter this Sunday afternoon, videos show a vehicle on fire at Charles-de-Gaulle airport, near Paris. On one of the images, we can see a large column of black smoke near Charles-de-Gaulle airport, near Paris. “Smoke outside is from a burning electric bus“says a voice coming”from Air France“, in this publication, reports the user behind the message. Other videos also show the smoke, from the sky, or the ground.

Contacted by us, the ADP group specifies that the column of smoke came from a “fire on an external tourist bus at the airport“. The vehicle caught fireon the road accesses in front of terminal 2E“, we explain, without confirming however whether it was indeed an electric bus or not. The machine was empty, without driver or passenger, and there were no injuries, adds the company. The incident was quickly brought under control, thanks to the intervention of the fire brigade, and the situation is now “solved»: road access has been reopened, and the fire has had no impact on airport traffic.

In recent months, several cases of electric buses on fire have been reported by the authorities, such as in Carcassonne, or in the Paris region. In April 2022, the RATP even had to withdraw 149 vehicles from service, after two cases of fires in one month. More recently, at the beginning of May, a hybrid bus from the Ile-de-France region also caught fire on the ring road, without causing any injuries.