Baseball team’s charter bus catches fire in Iowa; no one is hurt

A charter bus caught fire early Friday as it was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in a Chicago suburb.

Members of the Sioux City Explorers made it off the bus safely, although several lost their gloves when the overhead bins melted.

The fire started as the bus approached the 1,400-person town of Earlham, Iowa, about a third of the way into its 490-mile drive to Geneva, Illinois, where the game was being played. Earlham Fire & Rescue blamed a mechanical issue for sparking the fire...