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School Bus Rescue: The 2011 Joplin Tornado Remembered

Watch a video that describes the devastation of an EF5 tornado that decimated Joplin, Missouri in May 2011 and that chronices the relief efforts. The school district’s school bus drivers played a vital role in providing emergency evacuation transportation.

Staff worked around the clock providing shuttle service to local residents as well as emergency responders, despite many not knowing well-being of their own family and friends.

The district’s transportation department was honored for its work in April 2014.

Read more on Joplin and tornado preparedness for school bus drivers in the May edition of School Transportation News magazine.

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