The story yesterday was that all the kids on a school bus caught in the bridge collapse survived.
Now the Star Trib has the story of the guy who got them off the bus into safe hands.
Hernandez leapt from his seat near the back of the bus and sprang into action.
"I looked over at the river and my heart started beating fast and I jumped over the seats, opened the back door, kicked the coolers out, turned around and tried to dump kids out of the bus," Hernandez said. "All the kids were lining up by the bus [as he got them out] and I could feel the bridge still shaking.
"I was handing kids over to these guys that were on the street right below it."
For the 61 people on the bus -- 50 students, eight staff members, the driver and her two children -- the next half-hour was filled with fear, screams and instinctive action....
"What the kids talk about most was the screaming, the silence, the confusion and the gentleman Jeremy [Hernandez], who really stepped up and gave a little direction and order as to what needed to happen," Mattson said. "They're still trying to comprehend what happened."
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