{"id":56282,"date":"2026-05-22T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/56282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:48:10","slug":"kane-county-cougars-team-bus-burns-down-in-canada-girl-15-charged-with-arson-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/56282\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane County Cougars\u2019 team bus burns down in Canada; girl, 15, charged with arson \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kane County<\/a> Cougars\u2019 team bus was destroyed in a fire that police in Canada allege was intentionally set by a teenage girl.<\/p>\n

The baseball team was in the midst of three-day schedule of games against the Winnipeg Goldeyes in Manitoba, Canada, when their team bus went up in flames, a fire reported at 1:50 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

The bus and its contents were destroyed in the blaze, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release.<\/p>\n

No one was injured, police said, though a \u201cbystander nearby observed someone inside the bus and assisted in removing them,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n

Police said they took two teens into custody at the scene, determined the fire was deliberately set and charged one of the juvenile, a 15-year-old girl, with arson causing property damage and possession of incendiary material.<\/p>\n

Police said the girl was released to an adult on an undertaking, similar to a bail bond in American law.<\/p>\n

No one from the Geneva<\/a>-based baseball team could immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

The team went on to win its Thursday game against the Goldeyes 12-5.<\/p>\n

Curtis Haug, the Cougars\u2019 vice president and general manager, told Shaw Local Friday: \u201cThankfully everyone is okay and only some gear and personal property was lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haug said that with the help of Goldeyes GM Andrew Collier, the team secured a bus to take the players to Fargo, North Dakota, Thursday for their weekend schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we have coordinated with our bus company, Windstar out of Iowa, to send us a bus to Fargo to complete the trip this weekend and eventually take us back home to Geneva on Sunday evening,\u201d Haug said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kane County Cougars\u2019 team bus was destroyed in a fire that police in Canada allege was intentionally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[149,13296,17,24729,2215,24727,24728],"class_list":["post-56282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-baseball","tag-breaking","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-fire","tag-kane-county","tag-kane-county-cougars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}