In excess of 2 million. Reporter middle schooler brock came to look at the damage with his grandfather. In the morning i got up i looked at my alarm clock and i was just like, wow, its past my time that i should be at school. Reporter his grandfather had some experience with fire to say the least. I was the fire marshal here for 21 years. Then we went across a couple different items that could have happened, you know, nobody knows for sure. Reporter in fact if damage isnt bad enough the School Superintendent says all the buses burned to the frame they were new. Had a 10 Year Warranty on the buses if they were new buses and all 16 of them in that garage were. Reporter we also spoke with former bus driver rose moyer who says she has a lot of great memories coming to work here. This is what i used to do. This is like my second family and its crazy. Im just glad nobody was in there. Reporter now, the state fire marshal just sort of wrapped things up. It appears the initial investigation ou
A disturbing social media threat has parents and students on edge in south jersey. And a former aide to the president is expected to plead guilty. But the big story on action news is the inferno that destroyed or damages dozens of school buses in the lehigh valley. It tore through a bus garage and forced the entire Parkland School district to cancel class. Bob brooks is live with the lightest. Reporter hey there rick, officials up here think this has caused quite a few dollars in damage and in excess of 20 million in damage behind me. We are up next to it. You can see how charred the buses are. 16 damages and totally destroyed and 14 others around here badly damaged bought of the heat coming off the fire. But the good news is no injuries. Let take a look. Officials say within minutes the bus garage on Stadium Drive was fully engulfed. 16 buses and plenty of fuel for a fire to burn and our crews captured the sounds of explosions inside. The end result 16 buses destroyed burned to the fr
Overnight fire ripped through the Parkland School district bus garage in orefield and Eyewitness News reporter alycia nieves spoke to School Official about how they plan to get students back in the classroom. Reporter Early Morning inferno in lehigh county, this explosive 3 00 a. M. Blaze raged right next to the middle school and inside Parkland School District School bus garage. The explosion that is everybody is reporting was tires popping off the buses, as the fire was going on. Reporter sixty newly purchased buses and the garage itself were burned to the ground. Another dozens or so buses parked outside the garage were also damaged, the Authorities Say from either debris flying from the fire or the heat given off by these flames. We lost some windshields, some mirrors, headlights. Reporter despite roughly two milliondollar in damage and 25 percent of the district s fleet destroyed, no one was hurt. I fell and it said no school due to a fire here. Reporter school for brook and thous
Kind of news we like to report but unfortunately we have to in this case and police say that somebody did break into st. Lawrence Catholic Church, here, on west chester pike in upper darby, stole from the poor box a donation box, stuff people give to every week. Not something very becoming but, authorities they are looking for at lee one person possibly several people. The other one broken in to was the Calvary Presbyterian Church, that is on wayne avenue, in upper darby. Now, Authorities Say that at this point they dont have any Surveillance Video, from the actual buildings but they are looking at the possibility of private Surveillance Video from surrounding businesses, or surrounding homes, and police chief Mike Chitwood very out spoken about this case. Take a listen to what he had to say about these burglaries. You break into the poor box to steel money that his given by parishioners or church go ers for the poor . And then some scum bag walks away with the change. I mean give me a
New financial and tax charges, adding to the case against him. It carried the potential for more than a decade in jail and the deal hammered out has the potential to spare him jail time and the exact terms of the deal are unclear and the special counsels office declined to comment. Turning to the forecast for your weekend its not going to be a total washout and the rain will dampen your plans. Sky 6 hd showing you penns landing at lunch time and there are cloudy skies all over and rain is falling in parts of the region and stop tonight and be back again tomorrow evening. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee is at the action news big board with the details and keep the umbrella at arms length this weekend. That is right rick, we dodge the rain drops on and off through the rest of the afternoon and into the weekend. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, we find a lull in the activity right now, still light rain showers across berks and lehigh county. And frozen precipitation where the w