Two people are being treated in hospital following a crash involving a Calgary Transit bus on Sunday evening.
Police and fire crews were called to the scene of the crash between an SUV and a city bus on Macleod Trail and Willow Park Drive S.E./Southport Road S.W. on Sunday night.
As a result of the crash, the car had caught fire, prompting crews to act quickly to save the life of one person trapped inside.
“What they encountered was that the vehicle that struck the bus was on fire and one of the patients that was in the car was trapped,” said Acting Battalion Chief Paul Leblanc. “So the crews performed a very rapid extrication of the patient while they were fighting the fire on the vehicle, pulled him to safety, and then put the fire out.”
A second patient had managed to get out of the SUV safely.
Both patients were taken to hospital in unknown condition.
EMS spokesperson Adam Loria says the patients are a male in his 20s in serious condition with potentially life-threatening injuries and a male in his late teens in serious but stable condition.
Crews took about half an hour to put out the blaze, and Macleod Trail was closed for about six hours afterwards.
The driver of the Calgary Transit bus, which was unoccupied at the time of the crash, was not hurt.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
