{"id":34852,"date":"2026-03-18T04:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/lanco-escapes-tour-bus-fire-in-iowa-blizzard\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:48:46","slug":"lanco-escapes-tour-bus-fire-in-iowa-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/lanco-escapes-tour-bus-fire-in-iowa-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"LANCO Escapes Tour Bus Fire In Iowa Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LANCO<\/strong>\u00a0survived a dangerous bus fire early Monday morning in Pella, Iowa, after performing in Des Moines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band stopped due to blizzard conditions around 4 a.m. while travelling to Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local police transported band members plus opening acts Willie Tate and Dawson Anderson to nearby hotels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their bus driver stayed behind but woke to find the vehicle engulfed in flames. He escaped with minor injuries while the bus was completely destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/lanco-bus-fire-iowa-video-photos-1236200745\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brandon Lancaster told\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em> <\/a>that some instruments were lost, though their equipment trailer survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a surreal 18 hours honestly, and we are so thankful that everyone on board is safe and sound. I can&#8217;t imagine what would have happened if we all decided to sleep on the bus. I know God was watching over us.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACM Award-winning group remains in Pella with their next show scheduled March 26th in St. Augustine, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV9-f2EgHCx\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCO\u00a0survived a dangerous bus fire early Monday morning in Pella, Iowa, after performing in Des Moines. The band stopped due to blizzard conditions around 4 a.m. while travelling to Nashville. Local police transported band members plus opening acts Willie Tate and Dawson Anderson to nearby hotels. Their bus driver stayed behind but woke to find","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":34856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7088,4395,7089,1028,5987,223,62,5243,748],"class_list":["post-34852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blizzard","tag-bus","tag-bus-fire","tag-fire","tag-iowa","tag-lanco","tag-nashville","tag-snowstorm","tag-tour-bus"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 23:50:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/lanco-escapes-tour-bus-fire-in-iowa-blizzard\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34854,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions\/34854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}