{"id":501649,"date":"2026-10-20T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501649\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:40:09","slug":"munas-tour-bus-catches-fire-band-says-they-are-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501649\/","title":{"rendered":"Muna&#8217;s Tour Bus Catches Fire, Band Says They Are Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi McPherson asked for help finding &#8220;the grandchild of the warlock whose curse is wreaking havoc on my life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA tour bus carrying the members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/muna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_muna\" data-tag=\"muna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muna<\/a> caught fire on the freeway in Burbank, California, on Monday. The scene was captured on camera by local station <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/burbank-tour-bus-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA<\/a>, which reported the incident shut down several lanes on the busy roadway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe station said the driver reportedly did not realize the bus was on fire when the California Highway Patrol got a call at 8:00 a.m. about a flaming bus on the southbound 5 freeway. After the bus pulled over on an offramp, the Burbank Fire Department was able to put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMuna shared a photo from KTLA\u2019s coverage on their social media alongside a caption: \u201cthe band MUNA as seen on the news this morning.\u201d The band said that \u201cmany personal items were lost but we\u2019re all safe, thank goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn the comments section, musician Naomi McPherson wrote, \u201cif anyone could help me find the grandchild of the warlock whose curse is wreaking havoc on my life so that i can carry em up the mountain &amp; fulfill the prophecy \/ undo the curse that has befallen me that would be much appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBack in September, Muna announced that McPherson, who plays guitar, synths, and sings in the band, would need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/muna-naomi-mcpherson-tour-1235627134\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miss several tour dates<\/a> to look after their mother, Harriet, who was in the terminal stages of a cancer battle. Muna also paid tribute to Harriet in the post, calling her \u201cone of the greatest, most wise and loving people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMcPherson is back on the road with Muna for their Gets So Hot Tour, which kicked off Sept. 25 in Philadelphia. The band has one more show at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre outside of Denver on Oct. 21 before heading to Europe for another month of concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi McPherson asked for help finding &#8220;the grandchild of the warlock whose curse is wreaking havoc on my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,28641],"class_list":["post-501649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-muna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}