Oct 7, 2005 7:04 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) NEW YORK A fire on a city bus crossing the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel during yesterday's evening rush hour forced 20 passengers to evacuate. The incident occurred on a day when tensions were high due to a terror threat to the city's subway system.
Heavy smoke began pouring from the bus at around 7 p.m. when the bus was heading towards Brooklyn. Twenty passengers got off and walked to the Brooklyn side of the tunnel. Police say 13 of them were treated for smoke inhalation.
The Bomb Squad searched the bus, but found no suspicious packages. Police say the fire appeard to be mechanical.
The bus caught fire hours after city officials warned the public of a terror threat to the city's subway system.
Brookly-bound traffic was delayed for about an hour.
Traffic delayed for an hour? I watched the traffic cam on mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/index.html until after 12:30am last night and the tunnel was still closed by the time I went to bed.
I guess that means traffice was rerouted?