VIDEO: The issues facing the MBTA keep rolling in, as an MBTA bus caught fire, Thursday afternoon. Two workers were taken to the hospital as a result.
The incident took place in Jamaica Plain, shortly after 3 p.m. according to T officials.
“I said oh my goodness that bus is on fire,” said Darragh Murphy who witnessed the bus burning as she drove past the Forest Hills T station. “Out of the corner of my eye, on the left side, I thought I saw some flames,” she said.
Murphy stopped to take a picture. “An out of service bus had just returned to the MBTA Arborway bus yard when flames were observed in the vehicle’s rear compartment,” according to the MBTA.
The MBTA says that T personnel “attempted to extinguish the flames, but were unsuccessful.” The Boston Fire Department was called in to put out the flames.