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Bus monitor Yesenia Garcia spots smoke coming from a mobile home, and driver Roseann Rios runs into the house with a fire extinguisher and douses a burning clothes dryer. After calling the fire department, Rios continues her work for the day and then buys the family who lives in the mobile home a turkey for Thanksgiving.
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Read More →Durham School Services, a student transportation provider, donated the bus to the Farmingville Fire Department for use in training for school bus-related emergencies.
Read More →Meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., delegates learned about predicting and responding to school violence, as well as handling the media, special-needs challenges and transportation funding.
Read More →More than 30 Bonner Springs, Kan., firefighters and paramedics participated in the school bus contractor’s training program on bus evacuation to better enable them to assist in an emergency on a school bus. The first responders tested their training hands-on as they explored two styles of buses and could see how each emergency exit worked, including the different door options and roof hatches.
Read More →Student safety in school transportation is vital, and fleet management plays a significant role in addressing this. Delve into challenges such as maintaining vehicle safety, adhering to compliance standards, ensuring efficient operations, as well as how digital tools help streamline all of this.
Read More →Last fall's massive storm on the East Coast created a surge of challenges for student transportation in New York City, from flooded bus yards and offices to fuel and equipment shortages. Here's an overview of the crisis and how the city's Office of Pupil Transportation responded.
Read More →Drivers and other employees rotate through 10 stations that include live fires for fire extinguisher training, evacuation of smoke-filled buses, CPR, and first aid.
Read More →Fairfax County reflects on 9/11 FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Most Virginia transportation operations were not directly affected by the events...
Read More →Dave Emerson tells SBF that his extensive training kicked in as he arrived at a bus stop where two girls’ mother had been shot. The board of his Indiana school district honored him last week for his decisive response to the tragedy.
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