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Bus carrying Broward students on field trip goes up in flames, video shows. Kids are safe
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Returning home from an Orlando field trip, a bus carrying Seminole Middle School students caught on fire, video shows. The children are safe.
Courtesy to the Miami Herald
A bus that was carrying Broward County students caught fire as the group traveled home from a field trip in Orlando, video shows. A school official told the Miami Herald the children are safe.
Tameka Smith, the sixth grade assistant principal at Seminole Middle School, confirmed an incident occurred sometime Friday night, the students were safe and that parents had been contacted.
The school website’s calendar also indicates the sixth graders were taking a field trip to SeaWorld on Friday. It was scheduled to end at 10:30 p.m.
A charter bus they rode to SeaWorld went up in flames while en route to Broward, according to video and text messages from students on the trip.
In the video, students are seen running from the large blaze surrounding the bus. The location of where students had been briefly stranded and the cause of the fire was not yet known.
This is a developing story.
This story was originally published February 17, 2024, 1:29 AM.
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