Minneapolis Public Schools’ plant operations and transportation services team spent four years converting an older school bus into the mobile command center. To read more about it, check out this news story.
Here, we share photos submitted to us by pupil transporters throughout the country that were featured in the Snapshots department of our 2013 Fact Book, our January 2013 issue and our February 2013 issue.
Tags: activity/field trips, emergency planning, history, stop arm running/illegal passing
Check out these action-packed shots of an emergency training event in Van Buren County, Mich., in which participants got to experience what it feels like to be in an overturned school bus as well as one filled with smoke. Submitted by Mark Niewoonder, transportation supervisor for Van Buren Intermediate School District.
Tags: bus fires, driver training, emergency planning, evacuation drills, Michigan, school bus crash
This Ohio district recently conducted a full-scale emergency exercise involving the Columbus bomb squad responding to a possible improvised explosive device (IED) at Holt Crossing Intermediate School and on a school bus. The district tested its new emergency plans and interoperatble digital radios. (Photo gallery courtesy of Campus Safety magazine, which is also published by Bobit Business Media.)
Tags: emergency planning
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