No one injured in Downtown bus fire

An out-of-service Memphis Area Transit Authority bus caught fire Friday evening.

No one was injured in the fire around 7:30 p.m. at North Second and Shadyac, said dispatcher Harold Hall.

The bus was out of service waiting on maintenance, and no customers were on board, said MATA spokeswoman Alison Burton. The fire happened near the William Hudson Transit Center. from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, stories behind the political mementos adorning his Washington office, and his 1978 walk across Tennessee.

The walk began Jan. 26 at his parents’ home in Maryville and ended July 6 at the Mississippi River in Memphis. Alexander says in the C-Span program that the walk “affected everything about my political career. I don’t think I would have been elected without it because it gave me a personality, a story that people paid attention to.”

Richard Locker