{"id":1216,"date":"2026-10-20T01:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/10\/20\/muna-safe-after-morning-tour-bus-fire-many-personal-items-were-lost\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:03:01","slug":"muna-safe-after-morning-tour-bus-fire-many-personal-items-were-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/10\/20\/muna-safe-after-morning-tour-bus-fire-many-personal-items-were-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"MUNA Safe After Morning Tour Bus Fire: \u2018Many Personal Items Were Lost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident comes a month after guitarist Naomi McPherson announced they would miss a portion of the band\u2019s fall tour amid their mother\u2019s terminal illness<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/GSPZ20DEeV61dEGY5tZG8_LMH_w=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/muna-tour-bus-fire-101926-e5bb514a80b34a7b8299eb0448ec7a9d.jpg\" alt=\"MUNA; MUNA\u2019s tour bus fire on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026.Credit: Alison Buck\/Getty; KTLA 5\/Youtube\" title=\"Muna Tour bus that caught fire\" \/><figcaption><i>MUNA; MUNA\u2019s tour bus fire on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026.<br \/>Credit: Alison Buck\/Getty; KTLA 5\/Youtube<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MUNA\u2019s tour bus caught fire on the 5 Freeway in Burbank, Calif., around 8:20 a.m. local time on Monday, Oct. 19<\/li>\n<li>No injuries were reported as Burbank firefighters contained the blaze, and investigators will examine its cause<\/li>\n<li>Guitarist Naomi McPherson recently stepped back from several tour dates to be with their terminally ill mother<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/muna-on-celebrating-pride-amid-anti-lgbtq-legislation-theyre-not-scaring-us-into-nonexistence-exclusive-7509019\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">MUNA<\/a> is safe after their tour bus caught on fire in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred while the indie pop band was traveling southbound on the 5 Freeway in Burbank, Calif., on Monday around 8:20 a.m. local time, <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/muna-turned-dark-period-into-most-confident-album-yet\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">KTLA<\/a> reported. The Burbank Fire Department responded to the scene and contained the fire.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n\n<p>PEOPLE has reached out to the Burbank Fire Department and California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The band posted an aerial shot of themselves as seen on KTLA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe band MUNA as seen on the news this morning,\u201d the photo was captioned on <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Der-efCPQDn\/?cplk=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cMany personal items were lost but we\u2019re all safe, thank goodness \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83e\ude79.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes just over a month after the group\u2019s guitarist, Naomi McPherson, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/muna-member-naomi-mcpherson-missing-part-of-tour-due-to-moms-terminal-cancer-12123404\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">they would miss part of the band\u2019s fall tour<\/a> to prioritize time with their mother.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>The indie pop trio \u2014 made up of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin and McPherson \u2014 announced on Sept. 15 that McPherson, 33, would miss multiple shows at the beginning of <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/whereismuna.com\/tour\/\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Gets So Hot tour<\/a> to spend time with their mother Harriet, who had terminal cancer and was in her \u201cfinal days.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTragically, Naomi\u2019s mother Harriet has been suffering for some time now from an extremely aggressive and terminal form of cancer that has escalated in severity over the past few weeks,\u201d MUNA said in the statement. \u201cNow, it has become clear that her passing will coincide with the beginning of this headline tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSilk Chiffon\u201d performers added that all tour dates will go on as scheduled, with a musician filling in for the absent member.<\/p>\n<p>Following the death of their mother, McPherson later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dd4ve92FuZd\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">returned to the tour<\/a> on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the recent personal upheaval, McPherson commented on the band\u2019s post about the bus fire, jokingly writing, \u201cIf anyone could help me find the grandchild of the warlock whose curse is wreaking havoc on my life so that i can carry em up the mountain &amp; fulfill the prophecy \/ undo the curse that has befallen me that would be much appreciated.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident comes a month after guitarist Naomi McPherson announced they would miss a portion of the band\u2019s fall tour amid their mother\u2019s terminal illness MUNA; MUNA\u2019s tour bus fire on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026.Credit: Alison Buck\/Getty; KTLA 5\/Youtube NEED TO KNOW MUNA\u2019s tour bus caught fire on the 5 Freeway in Burbank, Calif., around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}