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Tire on Rutgers football team bus catches fire en route to Penn State

An Academy bus carrying a portion of the Rutgers football travel party on the way to Penn State made an emergency road-side stop Friday afternoon after a tire caught fire.

A Rutgers official confirmed to NJ Advance Media there were no injuries to anyone associated with the school.

Pahomepage.com first reported the incident with video. The report stated that a Pennsylvania state trooper suffered minor injures on the scene while trying to put out the fire when a tire exploded, according to the bus driver.

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