Bus carrying Marines to Nashville catches fire; no one hurt

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Bus for Marine Corps Band New Orleans sits staged during the annual motivational run in celebration of the United States Marine Corps Birthday, New Orleans, La., Nov. 7, 2014. This motivational run started at Marine Force Reserve Support Facility and traveled along the Mississippi River banks through the street of Algiers Point. Over 500 Marines and sailors assigned to the command partook in this year’s event. This year marks the 239th Anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ricardo Davila/Released)

MONTEAGLE, Tenn. — Officials for Marine Week say a bus carrying about 40 Marines to the Nashville event has caught fire along Interstate 24. No one was injured.

The Marine Week public affairs office says in a news release that the Marines safely got off the bus Monday following the fire near the southeastern Tennessee community of Monteagle. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately determined.

The Marines were heading from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to the Marine Corps’ largest annual public event being hosted this year in Nashville. It runs from Wednesday through Sunday.

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