Bert Kreischer
Tour Bus Hearth Began After Tire Blew Off Rim
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March 16, 2026
4:20 AM PDT
Bert Kreischer’s tour bus hearth in North Dakota got here after a weird tire blowout the evening earlier than pressured the crew to desert the car on the aspect of the freeway … TMZ has discovered.
Rob Greenwald, Bert’s rep, tells TMZ … the difficulty began within the early hours of Sunday morning whereas the bus was touring from Fargo to Cedar Rapids. The entrance proper tire out of the blue blew out and fully tore off the rim. We’re instructed the bus did not hit something, and the drivers — who every have about 35 years of expertise — stated they’d by no means seen something prefer it.
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The bus pulled over alongside Interstate 94 throughout a snowstorm, and the group waited a pair hours making an attempt to rearrange a alternative tire. When none could possibly be delivered in a single day, Kreischer and others on the journey continued to Cedar Rapids on two separate crew buses. The disabled bus stayed behind with the motive force, who waited on the freeway for assist.
Greenwald says round 11 AM Sunday, whereas the motive force was sitting contained in the bus ready for the tire supply, he heard a loud popping sound coming from the entrance roof space. Inside seconds the car full of smoke.
The driving force rapidly exited, and the bus was quickly engulfed in flames. We’re instructed the entrance portion of the bus was burned and unrecognizable, whereas the again primarily suffered smoke injury.
Greenwald says the group feels extremely fortunate as a result of they usually sleep behind the bus and will have been trapped if the hearth began whereas they had been inside.
As we reported … Bert shared a photograph of the charred bus Sunday, writing everybody was protected however the car was gone.
