{"id":13814,"date":"2014-06-05T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2014-06-05T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:37:53","slug":"megabus-carrying-18-passengers-catches-fire-on-thruway-in-western-new-york-no-one-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/megabus-carrying-18-passengers-catches-fire-on-thruway-in-western-new-york-no-one-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Megabus carrying 18 passengers catches fire on Thruway in western New York; no one injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13815\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coach_USA_Megabus_Van_Hool_TD925_DD415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13815\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coach_USA_Megabus_Van_Hool_TD925_DD415.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Adam E. Moreira \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coach_USA_Megabus_Van_Hool_TD925_DD415.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coach_USA_Megabus_Van_Hool_TD925_DD415-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Adam E. Moreira \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">PORTLAND, N.Y.\u2014State police say no one was injured after a Megabus blew a tire and caught fire while travelling on the Thruway in western New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Troopers say the bus was carrying 18 passengers when the fire started as it travelled in Interstate 90\u2019s eastbound lanes around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Chautauqua (shuh-TAW\u2019-kwuh) County town of Portland, 45 miles southwest of Buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Police say all on board were able to get out of the bus unharmed before flames engulfed the vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">One eastbound lane between exits 60 and 59 remained closed until shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday while crews removed the charred bus and cleared the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Coach USA, the Paramus, New Jersey-based owner of Megabus, says the bus was headed from Cincinnati to Buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, N.Y.\u2014State police say no one was injured after a Megabus blew a tire and caught fire while travelling on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}