Tag Archives: school bus extrication

We started setting up for the HOT extrication class and it was raining. We finished the classes Friday evening and it was still raining.

Here are some pictures Grant Light shared of the last day of a recent extrication tech class in Cincinnati. Somehow a school bus rolled onto four cars with dummies trapped in them all. Well done training testing the techniques the students learned.

Two school buses were involved in one crash this morning in Cleveland. 12 students and 2 adults were transported to area hospitals.

Over the last two days there have been two serious school bus crashes. No city, town, village is immune to these crashes. The school bus in the First Due Tackle logo is a constant reminder to prepare for these incidents.

Serious crash where car under-rides school bus in Colorado this morning.

Two school bus crashes in Northwest Ohio this morning. Serious injuries for the driver that rear-ended one bus. Extrication resources included in this post.

A school bus rolled this morning in Mansfield, Ohio. Todd Hill from the Mansfield News Journal is reporting minor injuries (bumps and bruises). Read his article HERE.

Last month while at the School Transportation News Expo in Reno I learned about the new 98 gallon propane tank we will be seeing on some of Blue Birds school buses.

Over this weekend the world saw two fatal charter bus crashes. Although different in construction, these buses give rescuers similar challenges because of the numbers of passengers. Lots of personnel and resources are needed for incidents of this magnitude.

At the end of last year, Ryan Gray (Editor-In-Chief of School Transportation News magazine) contacted me about writing a piece on school bus emergencies and what first responders will do at the scene of a crash.  Read it HERE.  Subsequent to that article, I was invited to collaborate and present a couple classes at the STN Expo with Cheri Clymer ...