Football team bus goes up in flames

BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER

A bus carrying 38 freshman football players from Oxnard High School burst into flames on Highway 101 at around 2:20 p.m. today, fire officials said.
Santa Barbara County firefighters arrived on the scene a few miles south of Buellton to find the chartered school bus fully engulfed in flames, Fire Spokesman Eli Iskow said. Nobody was injured in the incident and the football players piled into a second bus.

"They buddied up and continued on to San Luis [Obispo] for a football game," Iskow said.
The fire remains under investigation and the charred bus has been towed to an impound area, fire officials said. Iskow said firefighters managed to save some of the football equipment as they fought the flames.