A school bus driver has been hailed as a hero after helping to rescue about 40 children from a burning school bus.
The female driver, identified as Kristina Buhrman was reportedly driving the middle school students at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday in Polk County, Florida, when the students started to smell smoke.
Buhrman stated that “A student yelled at me and said ‘There’s smoke coming in the bus.’ As soon as she yelled ‘there’s smoke in the bus,’ I immediately pulled over,” she said.
As the smoke thickened, she hustled the students off the bus while calling 911 dispatchers. The fire grew so hot, it blew out the windows, peeled away paint, and flattened the tires.
Florida highway patrol trooper Sgt. Mary Godino commended Buhrman’s actions.
“The bus driver did a fabulous job in getting all those kids off in time, or, as you would have known, if they didn’t get off, it would have been a terrible thing,” Godino said.
“The kids did great, they got off in a single-file line. They moved quickly and
they had to climb over the guardrail to get into the grass.”
Photo credit: Michael Krank
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