1817 hours. The Hauppauge Fire Department responds on a telephone alarm reporting a vehicle on fire on the Long Island Expressway. As this was a border call, the East Brentwood Fire Department was also dispatched. Units found a large coach bus burning on the west bound side of the LIE, just west of the exit 55 Motor Parkway overpass. At the time of the fire, there had been 52 persons on the bus. All of them exited safely and without injury.

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