An Extraordinary Ordinary Day

Kristina Buhrman, who rescued 38 children from a bus fire in Dec.

Most of us don't have many days outside of ordinary, routine days. We go through the day, nothing unusual happens. But then there are those days that start out ordinary, but become something else. Those days call upon some special strength inside of us, a call to reach beyond.

That something happened on Dec. 3 to Kristina Buhrman, a middle school math teacher at DISCOVERY ACADEMY in Lake Alfred, Florida. Now, most teachers don't drive school buses, but Kristina is known to substitute in that role when a regular driver is not available. So, driving the bus wasn't that unusual for her. Because one route was unfamiliar, she switched routes with another driver.



Things went along pretty normally until after that last stop. The bus was on the highway, but there was a little more smoke than usual, or was there? Then when one of the students in the back of the bus stood up and said, "Ms. Buhrman, there's smoke coming out of my seat," she sprung into action. Every single kid was evacuated from that bus and into a ravine at the side of the road, then "911" was called. The bus was on fire and quickly became fully engulfed in flames.

The children, with their teacher, were transported to school in another bus. Every single child that got off that bus thanked their wonderful teacher, because every single kid was alive and unharmed. Ms. Buhrman was also intact and, well, minus a few personal possessions that were lost in the fire.

Afterwards, there was the acclaim of others, even to the point of calling Ms. Buhrman a hero. Like Florida highway patrol trooper, Sgt. Mary Godino, who said, "The driver did a fabulous job in getting all those kids off in time, or, as you would have known, if they didn't get off, it would have been a terrible thing."

The evacuated children on the side of the highway.

What does Kristina Buhrman think? Well, she doesn't think she did anything so very extraordinary. As she said, "I didn't expect that anybody would care. I was doing my job. That's how I feel....I don't necessarily feel that I did anything that anybody else wouldn't do. I was just put in a place that I had to protect the kids that I'm there to protect and that's what we do."

I bet I some 38 kids and their families know differently. Those kids are alive and with their families because of one ordinary extraordinary teacher.

The smoking remains of the bus fire.

Thanks to this article from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/living/ep-kristinabuhrman/index.html, and this article from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-bus-driver-rescued-children-burning-bus/story?id=27360177.

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