A young bus driver in New Orleans, Louisiana, praised as a hero She was able to get nine children out of the school bus just before it burst into flames.
On Wednesday morning, 28-year-old Kia Rusev was going about her normal job as a school bus driver, a position she has held for the past three years. Eventually, Rusev began to suspect something was wrong because the bus was “twitching” and moving unusually slowly, he later said. ABC7NY. She stopped her car in front of a bar and pickleball facility known as the Exchange, located across the Mississippi River.
Suddenly, a bystander ran to the bus door and told Rusev that the bus was on fire. Rusev said that from then on, her maternal instincts began to kick in. “I learned motherhood,” she said. “I have children. I thought of them as my own.”
Cameras outside the exchange captured Rusev’s heroic rescue. She quickly got all nine children, ranging in age from kindergarten to eighth grade, off the bus. She then made her final pass to ensure the bus was fully evacuated before she exited out the front door on her own.
The bus soon exploded. “All I heard was, ‘Boom! Boom! Boom!’ I thought, ‘Oh my god, the bus exploded,'” she explained.
Some students were crying and a 911 dispatcher requested EMS because “several children were wanted.”[ed] However, everyone on the bus that day, including Rusev, safely left the bus.
“We could have lost our lives,” Rusev later realized. “That’s something I’ve been thinking about.”
Her employer, Community Academy of New Orleans, claimed that she showed “courage behind the wheel” that day.
“I’m really happy that I was able to save other children’s lives and save my own,” she said with a smile.
Preliminary investigation suggested that an alternator failure likely caused the initial combustion. The Community Academy claimed that it then inspected all bus units for similar problems. new york post report.
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