Passengers flee bus inferno

PASSENGERS on board a translink bus have escaped injury after the vehicle burst into flames just south of the Houghton Highway Bridge at Brighton.

The 27 passengers on board, including school students, got off the bus safely when the fire broke out in the engine compartment just after 8am.

The driver pulled over and evacuated the 47-seater bus when he noticed smoke coming from the vehicle.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service senior operations coordinator Barry Pearce said the fire itself was relatively small and quickly extinguished.

"We had one crew there and a man in breathing apparatus, just making the scene safe," he said.

Emergency crews remain at the scene and two southbound lanes of the Deagon Deviation are closed before the Holmes Street overpass.

A Translink spokesman said all of those on board were transferred to another bus and continued on with their journey.

The Courier Mail