Paradise, California (CNN)Kevin
McKay drove the school bus along gridlocked, dark roads as pockets of
fire burned all around. Nearly two dozen elementary school children were
on board with him.
Smoke began to fill the bus, so McKay took off a shirt. He
and two teachers on the bus tore it into pieces and doused them with
water. The children held the damp pieces of cloth to their mouths and
breathed through them.
He had been on the job, driving the bus for Ponderosa Elementary School in the northern California city of Paradise, only for a few months. Now, McKay was ferrying the 22 stranded children to safety as the Camp Fire scorched everything in its path. It would take five hours for them to reach safety.
The fire had broken out early November 8, forcing many to evacuate Butte County.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/18/us/wildfire-school-bus-rescue/index.html
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