{"id":491710,"date":"2025-11-18T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/omsa-confirms-bus-fire-in-the-national-district-no-injuries-reported\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:20:21","slug":"omsa-confirms-bus-fire-in-the-national-district-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/omsa-confirms-bus-fire-in-the-national-district-no-injuries-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"OMSA confirms bus fire in the National District; no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2013 The <strong>Metropolitan Bus Services Operator (OMSA) <\/strong>confirmed that this Tuesday, around 6:30 in the morning, one of its units caught fire on <strong>Albert Thomas Avenue corner Manuela D\u00edez<\/strong>, in the Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora sector, Distrito Nacional.<\/p>\n\n\nThe bus was transporting employees from the <strong>Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.<\/strong> Upon noticing the smoke, the driver immediately stopped the vehicle and ordered a total evacuation, ensuring that all passengers and the driver were unharmed.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/tag\/oficina-metropolitana-de-servicios-de-autobuses-omsa\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"21234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nMinutes later, units from the National District Fire Department and agents of the National Police went to the scene and put out the fire in a short time.\n\nThrough an official statement, the OMSA regretted the incident and announced that it is awaiting the technical report from the Fire Department.\n\nHe also reported that an internal investigation has already begun to determine the causes of the mechanical failure and to reinforce the fleet&#8217;s maintenance protocols.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 The Metropolitan Bus Services Operator (OMSA) confirmed that this Tuesday, around 6:30 in the morning, one of its units caught fire on Albert Thomas Avenue corner Manuela D\u00edez, in the Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora sector, Distrito Nacional. The bus was transporting employees from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Upon noticing the smoke, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":491711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41053,15745],"class_list":["post-491710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-fire","tag-omsa"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-23UO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-18-at-2.58.32-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-18-at-2.58.32-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}