Wisconsin college wrestling team’s bus catches fire

A Wisconsin faculty wrestling staff escaped harm after their bus caught fireplace on the best way residence from a meet in Minnesota.

Milwaukee College of Engineering officers say the college’s wrestling staff was on its approach from a meet in Itasca on Saturday when the bus caught fireplace. KARE-TV reported Monday that the bus was on U.S. Freeway 53 close to Cameron in Barron County when it caught fireplace round 8 p.m.

The motive force pulled over and everybody was capable of escape the car. Nobody was damage, MSOE Athletic Director Brian Miller mentioned in a press release.

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The Barron County Sheriff’s Division says staff members had been transported to the sheriff’s workplace to heat up and eat snacks whereas they waited for a substitute bus. A staff member’s guardian advised CBS-58 in Milwaukee that some wrestlers needed to evacuate the bus with out footwear or coats. Most of their digital tools, together with telephones and laptops, had been destroyed within the fireplace.

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“It was a protracted evening for everybody as they waited for a brand new bus to reach and produce them again to campus,” Miller mentioned in his assertion. “We thank the Barron County Sheriff’s Division and the realm fireplace departments for his or her help in maintaining our student-athletes secure and heat.”

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A spokesperson for bus firm AccuTrans Group mentioned an investigation into the reason for the hearth is underway.