NJ Transit Probing Hudson County Fire That Destroyed 7 Buses

Hoboken NJ

21 April, 2022

9:59 AM

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HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Law enforcement officials are investigating a fire in Hudson County that heavily damaged seven NJ Transit buses, the transit agency said. The fire, at a bus storage facility in North Bergen on Thursday afternoon, caused traffic delays not far from the Lincoln Tunnel at the start of evening rush hour. NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith said NJ Transit police and other local agencies are investigating the cause of the blaze. The fire reduced several of the buses to mere metal skeletons. (See video on Twitter here.) "At approximately 4:30 p.m., a fire was reported at an NJ TRANSIT bus storage facility on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen," he said. "The seven buses involved were decommissioned and no longer in revenue service and in storage at the time. The buses were unoccupied at the time." Want to get more alerts like this one? Or a daily 6 a.m. roundup of news in your town? Sign up with your zip code here and you'll get an email asking for your preferences. Get a free morning newsletter with news in any New Jersey town: https://patch.com/subscribe