A school bus driver jumped into action with a fire extinguisher when he came up on a fatal crash involving a corrections officer.
Cody Upham has been a Stewart County school bus driver for more than a decade. He loves his retirement gig after being a cowboy stuntman for movies.
When something is scripted it’s one thing, but when you come around a corner and you see two vehicles one of them on the side of the bank with a fire going underneath it, and a Sheriff’s car parked across the lane, you just aren’t expecting it,” Upham said.
Cody had several special needs students and a bus monitor in tow.
“There were cars on the other side that had stopped. I went around, drove up to get the kids out of harm’s way,” Upham said.
A truck had collided with a Houston County Corrections officer, who was transporting an inmate in a squad car on Cumberland City Road at Elk Creek Road.
I grabbed the fire extinguisher,” Upham said.
The truck had caught fire with people who were trapped.
Upham had just received training on how to use the extinguisher.
“I got the fire out, and I was looking at the people in the vehicle, and it was really tough to say ya know? Nobody was in real good shape,” Upham said. “I tried to talk to a couple of them. I tried to calm one person down.”
A passenger in the truck didn’t make it, and a medical chopper landed in
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Four people were killed and 17 were injured in a massive traffic crash along Interstate 96 near Webberville, Michigan — about 70 miles west of Detroit — late Saturday night.
Police said the deadly pileup happened just before midnight when a semi-truck with a trailer approached traffic at a standstill on the interstate but could not stop in time. The truck plowed through several
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