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the REPORTER PUBLISHED BY YOUR SOURCE FOR NAPT AND NASDPTS CONFERENCE NEWS! OCTOBER 26–31, 2018 GET INSIDE


6 Linda Bluth Heads List of NAPT Award Winners


8 Photos from Around Kansas City


10 On the Rise: On-Demand Transportation Services


12 NTSB Investigates Bus Crashes & Fires


14 A New Traffic Concern for Bus Drivers


18 Trade Show Product Spotlight


PHOTO: DAVID GEORGE


On Fire for School Bus Safety BY CLAUDIA NEWTON | CLAUDIA@STNONLINE.COM A live action event held for NAPT Summit and NASDPTS Conference attendees on Saturday


provided a real-world look at how training and bus equipment should factor into the conversation on school bus safety.


bleachers overlooking a field in which three buses were set up, one on its side. “Evacuation is the biggest (life-saving) action we


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can take in any bus-related fire event,” declared As- sistant Fire Chief Dan Manley, who led the project. To establish a baseline for average evacuation times, 30 volunteers were called from the audience to play the role of students and participate in evacuation drills to determine the initial amount of time they would take.


Exiting the bus through the rear exit without hav- ing to first unbuckle seat belts took the adults one minute and 16 seconds. A subsequent drill in which seat belts were worn took them two seconds longer. However, when attendees wore seat belts and elected to keep their eyes closed to simulate navigating to


he evacuation exercise event was held at the Lee Summit Fire Academy near Kansas City on Saturday afternoon. Several hundred attendees gathered on


the back of a smoke-filled bus, that time increased to two minutes and 27 seconds. Attendees were quick to point out that children


would react and behave quite differently due to young age and panic, which would slow evacua- tion. Tey highly approved of performing the drill with their eyes closed. One volunteer added that unfamiliarity with seat belts slightly hampered evacuation time. “Each (student) demographic group creates


different challenges for us with evacuation,” Manley noted. “Te way we improve our opportunity for success is to train and educate the students that are riding on our buses.” Te first school bus was subjected to a carefully


monitored fire, set in the engine compartment. Man- ley explained that batteries and fuel tanks had been removed for safety of the people present, but the buses had not been treated with fire accelerants. Each had some backpacks and a partial bale of straw aboard. Continued on page 4


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