4:34pm: Two bus drivers grabbed fire extinguishers and put out a fire that broke out on the back of a school bus this afternoon.
The driver of the school bus heard the kids yelling and saw smoke coming from the back of the vehicle and pulled over into the shoulder on the Mount Maunganui side of the Harbour Bridge to get all the kids off the bus.
The driver said a bus coming up behind stopped and the driver got their fire extinguisher, kept in all buses, out to help put out the small fire at the back of the bus.
Fire services and police were quick to the scene.
Meanwhile the students from the bus, from Bethlehem College, ran to the Bridge Marina carpark to wait for another ride.