Authorities say the fire that damaged a tour bus linked to Ice Cube’s Truth to Power: Four Decades of Attitude tour doesn’t appear to have been a targeted attack, according to KPTV.
The blaze broke out early Tuesday morning when the front wheel of a charter bus caught fire near Southwest Oak Street and Broadway. Firefighters quickly put out the flames and cleared the smoke. While early reports suggested the bus belonged to Ice Cube, the rapper later clarified that it was one used by his crew.
“Wasn’t my bus,” Cube wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “It was a crew bus. Parked in front of the hotel. Everybody was upstairs sleeping. Nobody hurt. No equipment damaged. A coward set fire to the bus. My bus was actually in Oakland getting serviced.”
Speaking later with Portland’s KGW, Cube added, “I’m not taking this incident as a personal attack. A coward like that would burn anybody’s property that was out there at the time.”
A spokesperson for Portland Fire & Rescue told Complex that crews responded to “reports of a vehicle/charter bus fire” and discovered “the front passenger side tire aflame.” They also noted that the bus “is owned by a professional agency and not privately owned.”
Portland Police backed up that account in a statement to FOX 12, calling the blaze “a random act of vandalism” and confirming there was “no evidence of an incendiary device used to initiate the fire.”
Investigators say the case remains open as authorities review nearby surveillance footage to pinpoint the cause of the incident.
