The bus carrying Sioux City’s minor league baseball team caught fire early this (Friday) morning on its way to a game in a Chicago suburb. J.D. Scholten is a 44-year-old member of the Iowa House of Representatives who’s been a replacement pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers since July. He says the team was awakened at 3 a.m.
Scholten says everyone on the bus got off safely, but some of the players’ gloves were left behind and got torched. The bus was near Earlham, just west of Des Moines, when it caught fire and Scholten says the town’s fire crews were on the scene quickly.
The Sioux City Explorers won a game in Lincoln, Nebraska last (Thursday) night and were about a third of the way to Geneva, Illinois, when the bus caught fire on Interstate 80. Another bus picked up the team at about 5:30 and they made it to their destination before lunch. The Explorers play the Kane County Cougars at 6:30 tonight (Friday).
