Fire On the Bus Demonstration

Last month over on Daily Routes, we posted a story on school bus fire extrication procedures from a fire fighter's perspective. One of our new readers expressed excitement about putting this issue out there:

"Our goal, of course, is to always keep kids safe. Can we do a better job?? You bet. We can work with our "community partners" to better plan and prepare. If you don't know who your emergency manager, fire chief, police chief is, today is a good day to get acquainted. Ask permission to go to one of their staff meetings. They want to help us and in doing so, we help them."

On the same note, we recently posted a video of Denny Coughlin from Minneapolis Public Schools discussing the importance of training for school bus drivers. In this demonstation from the 2007 School Transportation News EXPO and Trade Show, he expands on the idea and shows what it's actually like inside a smoke-filled bus.