POP/ROCK - Aug. 30, 1988

Four members of the Charlie Daniels Band escaped injury when the motor home they were leasing burst into flames on U.S. 101 about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Daniels and company had pulled the motor home off to the shoulder after passing motorists pointed out smoke coming from the engine compartment, and everyone evacuated the vehicle moments before flames erupted as the band returned from playing at the Ventura County Fair, a spokesman, said Monday. No one was injured, he said. “Just tell everybody we set them on fire in Ventura,” Tommy Crain, the band’s lead guitarist, told agent Alan Hopper of the William Morris Agency.