Fear Factory survive bus fire

Industrial metallers Fear Factory's UK tour ended in disaster this morning as their tour bus caught fire.

The band, who were lucky to make it out of the vehicle alive, were en route from a gig in Sheffield to a London airport when their driver noticed smoke coming from the back wheel of the bus at approximately 3:30AM.

"He tried to extinguish it but the flames were too much," said guitarist Dino Cazares. "Everyone was woken up by one of our crew yelling get everyone up and out of the bus. Everyone grabbed there bags and ran off the bus . We stood on the Side of the [motorway] going 'thank god we all made it out'.

"Some of us lost wallets , money, computers etc. but that's not important compared to our lives," he adds. "It only took about 20 to 30 minutes for the bus to be completely covered in flames. The fire trucks and the police finally arrived but it was too late to save anything on the bus . We found out early this morning the bus is just a metal frame on the side of the road . They had to scrape up what was left of the bus from the road because it melted into the pavement!"

Tags: Fear Factory

Posted by Dan at 05:13PM | August 5, 2010

Dino probably left the cooker on

Posted by Dave | August 5, 2010 5:37 PM | Reply to this

Do half of the people who use this site even know who Fear Factory are?
Just to let everyone know, they don't have fringes and won't be playing Slam Dunk any time soon.

Posted by Jordan | August 5, 2010 5:40 PM | Reply to this

Witty

Posted by Steve | August 5, 2010 6:13 PM | Reply to this

Wow, lucky they all got out safely! Btw its their not there :P

Posted by kay | August 5, 2010 6:47 PM | Reply to this

nice to know you are more metulz than anyone else in the world jordan

Posted by acki | August 5, 2010 8:22 PM | Reply to this

hehe omg i love jordans comment is funny because its true lol

Posted by cj | August 5, 2010 9:04 PM | Reply to this

At sonisphere they said that we were lucky to have seen fer factory, which was a bit cheeky. They were nearly very right

Posted by Gauge | August 5, 2010 9:15 PM | Reply to this

Gutted for them, they were class at Sonisphere

Posted by Lee | August 5, 2010 9:23 PM | Reply to this

Did they lose all their Equipment (guitars amps ect)? :S

Posted by Matt Bromage | August 5, 2010 10:50 PM | Reply to this

Fucking hell, i'm meant to be seeing them in a week at Bloodstock. Would have been gutted if they had been hurt.

Posted by Bianca | August 5, 2010 11:03 PM | Reply to this

as a longtime fan, i feel compelled to say im glad they are ok, nearly had more people to add to the list of rock and metal stars that passed away this year,

anyway glad they are safe.

and lol @Dave's comment,

Posted by JackVegas | August 5, 2010 11:09 PM | Reply to this

I hope Bowling for soup use the same bus company.

Posted by max von hassel | August 6, 2010 12:05 AM | Reply to this

Aha, very good... No one here knows who they are... they ruled sonisphere! Fuck Good Charlotte and Papa Roach!

Posted by Matt fern | August 6, 2010 8:15 AM | Reply to this

glad they got out ok
for the person who made the bowling for soup comment go f**k your self

Posted by steve D | August 6, 2010 9:14 AM | Reply to this

Shut up about bowling for soup, they are great, this band could have died, which I'm happy they didn't. You shouldn't want anyone to die that way as I doubt you would want to yourself.

Posted by Jake | August 6, 2010 9:22 AM | Reply to this

Lol dude i dislike bowling for soup too.....................but they don't need to die O.o

Posted by Angst | August 6, 2010 10:01 AM | Reply to this

I find the picture of Dino Cazares huddling by the side of the road in his PJ's rather...disturbing.

Don't flame me, I'm the biggest Fear Factory fan in the world.

And no, they didn't lose their gear.

Posted by Milk Lizard | August 6, 2010 12:22 PM | Reply to this