{"id":89736,"date":"2025-12-10T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:08:13","slug":"driver-hospitalized-after-lausd-bus-catches-fire-under-210-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89736\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hospitalized after LAUSD bus catches fire under 210 Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vpjbre4jmc5xqvke.jpg\" alt=\"School bus catches fire\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/video\/1754406\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School bus catches fire<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">An electric school bus caught fire in the Lake View Terrace area underneath the 210 Freeway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/education\/lausd\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Unified School District<\/a> bus driver was hospitalized after a school bus caught fire underneath the 210 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">California Highway Patrol officials said the bus driver reported that the bus he was operating caught fire near the 210 Freeway and Osbourne Street in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/lake-view-terrace\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lake View Terrace<\/a> area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Aerial images from SkyFOX showed flames coming from the bus and heavy smoke that could be seen from the freeway as LA City firefighters worked to knock down the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lausdschoolfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Thankfully, no students were on board at the time of the fire. However, the driver was taken to an area hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The name of the bus driver has not been released. The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information from the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/lake-view-terrace\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake View Terrace<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/education\/lausd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAUSD<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School bus catches fire An electric school bus caught fire in the Lake View Terrace area underneath the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,15,48,52,6086,51,49879,17248,47,137,50,49,100,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-89736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-lake-view-terrace","15":"tag-lausd","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-county","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89736","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=89736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}