Overview

• The education and transport ministers ordered a preventive halt to enable provincewide inspections through the weekend.
• Transport Canada opened an investigation, and firefighters reported the fire was tied to the bus’s heating and defrosting system.
• The driver evacuated five children before the vehicle burned, and no injuries were reported.
• School service centres reported major disruptions, with the English Montreal School Board cancelling more than 70 routes and another cancelling over 50.
• Lion said it is investigating the incident as the company works through recent ownership changes and a refocus on electric school buses.