In order to prepare for the worst, Colorado first responders created a real-life school bus extraction for hundreds of school transportation workers to teach them how to handle emergency scenarios.
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The simulation showed the rescue of 20 victims inside an overturned school bus. It was both exciting and harrowing as fire crews cut through the steel to demonstrate the best way to gain access to the passengers. After stabilizing the bus, they treated and extracted the victims.
The demonstration was part of an annual transportation conference partnered with the Adams 12 school district.
“The important thing is that we get the chance to work here and practice. Also, train these great people that come to the conference to be prepared,” said the emergency preparedness manager for the district. “The smell, the sights, the sounds. They get the real feel but they get to sit in bleachers and see it from a back point of view, so they never have to experience it in real life.”
A Washington state school bus driver stands accused of refusing to let kids roll down the windows on a hot day, claiming that it was pointless as all of them would be home soon and the alarms would go off.
Several students got sick as a result, the boiling heat making one student faint. A security camera on the bus captured a student pleading for help. Many of the students on board stated that they were traumatized by the incident, but the driver refused to budge.
Mary Waggoner of Everett Public Schools said the driver was taken of the route. “I think students were upset from what they experienced they day before and were a little unsure about being on the bus,” Waggoner said.
Footage also showed the driver allowing students, including the one who became ill, to get off the bus at the wrong stop. The bus company has subsequently fired the driver.
A driver who blew by a stopped school bus that was picking up roughly 20 children on southern Florida street was quickly nabbed by the Greater Sudbury Police and cited for the infraction. The driver was fined for failing to stop for a stopped school bus, and was issued a $490 ticket. The citation carries six demerit points on a driver’s license upon conviction.
As new details emerge, Iowa authorities now believe that alcohol may be involved in a collision at an intersection where school bus slammed into the back of a semi. The school bus driver, Amber Stubbs, agreed to a field sobriety test and breath test and blew a .034 BAC. The legal limit for a driver operating a CDL vehicle is .04 BAC. Stubbs was not cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Instead, she was cited for following too close. None of the 19 students on board were seriously injured, most of them treated for bumps and bruises.
