It is unclear if anyone has been injured as a result of the blaze.
A bus has burst into flames on a busy city centre street in Edinburgh. The huge blaze broke out on South Clerk Street in the capital city at around 7.24pm on Monday February 9.
Firefighters are currently at the scene but it is unclear how the fire started, reports Edinburgh Live. There were no casualties reported.
An image from the scene shows smoke billowing into air with flames covering the back of the vehicle.
Another picture shows the flames with traffic building up behind the incident. A bystander told our sister title: “I had hopped in the Sainsbury’s and when I left I noticed there were people standing in the street.
“The back right corner of it was on fire and it smelled like burning rubber in the street. I thought, ‘maybe I should get out of here really fast’. When I walked down the street a bit farther and I turned around the whole bus was now enveloped in flames.”
Another eyewitness said residents were ‘running to safety’ from the city centre blaze.
They said: “I was walking home when I noticed a huge traffic queue and I could smell smoke. When I got closer I could see a bus was on fire and people were running from the scene to get to safety.
“Soon the whole road was shut down as the fire service arrived. There was a lot of smoke and I could smell burning rubber.”
A number of bus lines were diverted from South Clerk Street amid major disruption in the city centre. Lothian Buses has alerted travelers to diversions for the 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 29, 30, 31, 33, 37, and 47 routes.
A spokesperson from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We received a call at 7.24pm to a bus on fire on South Clerk Street. We are currently in attendance and have sent two appliances. It is not known whether there are any casualties at this time.”
They later added: “Our crews received the stop message around 8.25pm and the last appliance left the scene at 8.48pm. There were no casualties.”