Police are investigating a school bus fire in Broward County.
The Broward County school bus went up in flames in the 9500 block of Pines Boulevard in Pembroke Pines Wednesday afternoon, according to Pembroke Pines police.
Video of the blaze posted by Instagram user Milinda Smith shows the bus engulfed by the fire, heavy smoke escaping through the windows.
The bus had just made its final stop at Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale and was on its way to a school activity when the fire started, said a district spokeswoman.
The bus driver safely got off the bus and there were no children inside, according to police.
Traffic was briefly redirected as firefighters worked to extinguish the fire.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
