VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — A bus blaze alongside Interstate 95 close to Daytona Seashore left dozens of passengers who have been getting back from a trip scrambling for security and leaving all the things they introduced behind.
Dramatic cellphone video captured the bus utterly engulfed in flames, Saturday morning.
“Holy smokes. The entire bus,” somebody is heard saying within the video.
Tanetta Hampton, her 7-month-old daughter Naomi and the remainder of her household have been a part of the 55 individuals on the Georgia-bound bus who escaped simply in time.
“We simply got here off a cruise. Fifty-four or 55 individuals having an excellent time, after which out of nowhere, there’s chaos, fireplace,” mentioned Hampton. “I imply, the truck burned to a crisp.”
Hampton mentioned she rushed off so shortly, she left all the things behind.
“I didn’t even assume to seize my child’s child bag together with her components and diapers and issues,” she mentioned. “I identical to, ‘Let me simply hurry up and get out of the way in which, get off the bus, in order that the again can – everyone can get off the bus.’”
Once they obtained off, Hampton and the remainder of the passengers watched as their baggage burned.
“Some household making an attempt to get their baggage, some household like, ‘Oh, it’s going to blow up, get away,’ so it was loads of feelings up,” mentioned Hampton. “Folks have been like crying and tussling with one another, making an attempt to avoid wasting household from going, you realize, in the direction of the hearth. That was the scariest half, was the panic of everyone even outdoors of the bus.”
Whereas the Hampton household could have misplaced all the things they introduced with them on the bus, they gained gratitude, realizing everybody was capable of get off safely.
“That stuff may very well be changed, however I’m so grateful that everyone is OK. Nobody was harm in any form of manner,” mentioned Hampton.
Hampton has a fairly large following on social media, She mentioned that whereas they have been standing on the facet of the highway within the warmth with little Naomi, one in every of her followers acknowledged her, pulled over and drove all of them the way in which throughout the state.
“Simply as I used to be saying that my child can’t stand to be in that warmth for that lengthy, a few of our supporters pulled over,” she mentioned. “I attempt to inform anyone that I do know, be sort to individuals, love on individuals and be selfless, as a result of God labored by means of individuals one to a different, and so, that was superb, to expertise that love and that favor like that.”
Troopers with the Florida Freeway Patrol mentioned different passengers have been later picked up by one other bus.
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