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PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. Two middle school students jumped into action to save the life of their bus driver who experienced a medical emergency while on the road in Georgia. Though the driver couldnt breathe, WSB reports she was able to navigate the bus full of kids to the side of the road. Thats when Conner Doss and Kane Daugherty realized something was wrong.
"And I come up and I see sixth graders yelling and I come out, come in the aisle, and then I looked down and Miss Julie's face is just like bright red and like shaking," said Doss. "I hear her say, Hey, somebody help. And so, I run up like here and she's over here. She's shaking like really bad," said Daugherty. With little time to think, the boys did what they could to help.
"So, I picked up the microphone (dispatch radio). I said, Somebody help, like, Somebody help. Our bus driver feels really dizzy. And then somebody called her phone. It was right here," said Daugherty. A dispatcher was on the line and helped Cane to set the vehicles emergency brake, flashing lights, and emergency stop arm. The dispatcher called 911.
The kids did what they could to flag down people to help. "And we opened up a window and we were like waving them down and everything, like telling them to get over here, like to help," said Daugherty.
They got the attention of a pastor who happened to be driving by.
He hopped on and led the kids in prayer until the ambulance arrived.
WSB reports that the driver is recovering and hasn't yet returned back to work. It remains unclear what the medical emergency was.
https://www.10news.com/news/national/boys-jump-into-action-to-save-bus-driver-who-experienced-medical-emergency
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)and that is the problem. The one ADULT who could actually help, instead, chose to lead a prayer......
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)away from danger, and taken down names, for school follow-up to parents.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)If others are there and he wants to pray, so be it, but .....please.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)was kind of where my first thought went too.
SheilaAnn
(9,704 posts)UpInArms
(51,283 posts)Wtf?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)seriously demented
viva la
(3,294 posts)>He hopped on and led the kids in prayer until the ambulance arrived.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)I believe I read that sequence correctly. CPR was apparently not called for.
He then led the bus full of kids in a calming group activity.
So why the incredible negative comments against the first adult in the scene? He wasnt insisting on, I dunno, baptizing the little sinners or anything. He was using his personal skill-set to calm them down, the way I see it.
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes indeed
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)done here