PHOTO: No students were injured when flames ravaged a school bus on the Garden State Parkway in South Jersey.
The call came in around 2:34 p.m. Wednesday for a fire near mile marker 20.6 in Upper Township.
Officials tell Action News that 10 students and a bus driver were all able to escape the flames. Ocean City School District officials say the students are from the Intermediate School and were heading home to Sea Isle City.
"We want to thank everyone for their quick thinking and smart response during today's incident. The students acted swiftly and calmly as they followed the driver's directions to exit the bus as soon as a problem was identified. They should be commended, and we are thankful that everyone is safe," said School Business Administrator Timothy Kelley in a statement.
The Sheppard Bus driver has been identified as Miss Linda.
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VIDEO: So far this year, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says there have been 277 wildfires in the state with nearly 300 acres burned. Fire season just began.
The first line of defense? Well, they sit 100 feet or higher in the sky. "Nothing else like it," NJFFS Fire Observer, Mark Turner, said. He's been with the fire service for eight years.
Turner spends eight hours a day — alone — up in the sky. On Tuesday, CBS News Philadelphia met him 100 feet in the air at the Blue Anchor Fire Tower, and to get there, we all walked up a narrow zig-zagged staircase.
"A lot of people think, 'Ah, I couldn't do that because you're just stuck in a box all day,' but if you really look at the big picture — sometimes there's a lot going on," Turner said. Arguably there is a lot going on all the time.
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