JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A school bus driver is being hailed a hero for her efforts to keep kids safe when the bus got caught in the crossfire of a shooting.
“All I know is to get down and save my babies. I had 30 babies on there,” the driver, Carole Houston, told WTLV.
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Houston was a year into her job driving the bus for a K-12 private school when the unthinkable happened. As she drove into an apartment complex to drop off students, bullets started flying past the bus.
“When I got to the first dumpster on the entrance side, bullets just started flying,” Houston said.
A bullet went straight through the windshield as she told the children to duck for cover.
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“I finished hearing the bullets. I got up myself and told them to stay down and I got back in the driver seat. It was glass all over the seat, but I wanted to make sure my babies were safe, so getting them out of harms way was my biggest thing,” Houston told WTLV. “So I got back in
