{"id":11573,"date":"2025-10-22T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11573\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:44:26","slug":"no-injuries-in-brooklyn-center-school-bus-fire-thanks-to-quick-actions-from-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11573\/","title":{"rendered":"No injuries in Brooklyn Center school bus fire thanks to &#8216;quick actions&#8217; from driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) &#8211; Quick actions by a bus driver and bystanders prevented injuries during a school bus fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/us\/mn\/hennepin-county\/brooklyn-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> School bus fire response   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Brooklyn Center Fire Department responded to a school bus fire near the intersection of 55th Avenue and Brooklyn Boulevard shortly before 3 p.m. Eight children were safely evacuated to the sidewalk with the help of the bus driver and bystanders.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Metro Transit provided a bus to keep the children warm while they waited to be reunited with their parents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Brooklyn Center Police Department facilitated the reunification at a nearby elementary school.<\/p>\n<p> Fire extinguished in 15 minutes <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Fire crews managed to extinguish the blaze within approximately 15 minutes, and the boss was a total loss, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The cause of the fire is under investigation, with initial suspicions pointing to a mechanical issue near the engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: \u00a0Information from the Brooklyn Center Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/us\/mn\/hennepin-county\/brooklyn-center\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Center<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) &#8211; Quick actions by a bus driver and bystanders prevented injuries during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9185,100,99,850,545,9230,9229,9,24,12,63,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-11573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-center","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-crime-publicsafety","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-hennepin-county","15":"tag-mn","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}