{"id":243471,"date":"2026-07-14T22:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:25:35","slug":"charter-bus-bursts-into-flames-on-i-80-in-pocono-township-poconos-and-coal-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243471\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter bus bursts into flames on I-80 in Pocono Township | Poconos and Coal Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POCONO TWP., Pa. &#8211; A charter bus burst into flames in Pocono Township early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to a social media post from Pocono Township Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched to the I-80 west &amp; I-380 split for a charter bus fire.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Charter bus bursts into flames on I-80 in Pocono Township\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a55673d6c882.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Pocono Township Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say units arrived to find a fully engulfed bus with all occupants evacuated and a small brush fire extending up the hill on the side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Township fire crews also responded to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Charter bus bursts into flames on I-80 in Pocono Township.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5567834653a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Pocono Township Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Crews operated on scene for about an hour and a half before clearing as Pennsylvania State Police and the tow recovery company remained on scene for clean-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POCONO TWP., Pa. &#8211; A charter bus burst into flames in Pocono Township early Monday morning. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,62364,104333,104334,19144,813,104335,18747,1224,81009],"class_list":["post-243471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-brush-fire","tag-bus-fire","tag-charter-bus","tag-evacuation","tag-firefighters","tag-i-380","tag-i-80","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pocono-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}