CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A wedding party escaped a possibly calamitous situation over the weekend when a limo bus, which was supposed to take them to their ceremony, went up in flames in Humboldt Park.
Rich Siemon has been driving limos or bus limos for 30 years, and he said seeing the motor go up in flames has never happened to him before. He told CBS 2 that it started with the lights on his odometer going haywire.
“It started smoking,” he said. “I went to a safe spot, pulled it over here, and then it started on fire, real heavy.”
Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th), who represents the ward where the limo bus caught fire, warned her constituents that the limo bus fire had prompted an air quality alert.
The fire broke out as Siemon was on his way to pick up the wedding party, so he was the only one on the bus.
Nobody was hurt.
Luckily, he had another vehicle and had started early enough that he still had time to make the switch.
Even with the fire, Siemon got the wedding party to the church with 10 minutes to spare.
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