BREAKING NEWS: Fear Factory's bus catches FIRE

This morning the Fear Factory crew were literally in fear. After their sold out show in Northamptonshire, England they had an incident that could have caused them their lives. As they were driving on the M1 highway to Heathrow airport to drop someone of, their tour bus caught fire. The driver noticed some smoke on one of the back tires and immediately pulled over. He then grabbed the fire extinguisher and frantically attempted to put the fire out, but the flames were too big. He immediately told everyone to evacuate the bus, and when everyone thought they were all save, they realized they were missing a crew member. So without thinking twice, one of the friends of the band ran inside and saved his life.


Here is what guitarist Dino Cazarez had to say about the incident. (Courtesy of Blabbermouth):

"We just finished playing a sold-out show in Sheffield, England and we were on our way to London airport to drop someone off. Everyone was asleep except [for] two [members of the road] crew."

"At about 3:30 a.m. the bus driver noticed smoke coming from the back right wheel. He stopped, jumped out and noticed a flame underneath the wheel. He tried to extinguish it, but the flames were too much."

"Everyone was woken up by one of our crew members yelling to get everyone up and out of the bus. Everyone grabbed there bags and ran off the bus. We stood on the side of the freeway going, 'Thank god we all made it out' until someone noticed our merchandise guy was still asleep on the bus so our good friend ran back on the smoke-filled bus and got him out just minutes before the bus was completely in flames."

"Our eyes were burning and we were all coughing from the smoke. Some of us lost wallets, money, computers etc.. But that's not important compared to our lives."

"It only took about 20 to 30 minutes for the bus to be completely covered in flames."

"The fire trucks and the police finally arrived, but it was too late to save anything on the bus."

"I hope they saved our trailer with the gear."

"A coach bus picked us up and brought us to a nearby hotel."

"We found out early this morning that the trailer was saved and the bus is just a metal frame on the side of the road. They had to scrape up what was left of the bus from the road because it melted into the pavement."

We are very glad that no one got injured, and wish the Fear Factory crew an incident free remainder of the tour. Fear Factory is currently on tour for their latest epic album called "Mechanized". The band will be touring the United Kingdom and will also be performing at various European festivals. We recently saw them take over Irving Plaza in New York City, here is the review of the show.

This is FEAR FACTORY doing REPLICA at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey:


Related links:
Fear Factory on MySpace