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Emergency Exit and Evacuation

Emergency Exit and Evacuation covers how to evacuate a school bus safely, drawn from 49 CFR 383.123(a)(2)(ii).

Practice Emergency Exit and Evacuation

4 Questions

  1. School bus guidance names conditions under which the driver has to get everyone off the bus rather than weigh the decision. Which of these is one of them?
  2. In an emergency or a developing crisis that is not on the mandatory evacuation list, what is the general rule about whether to keep students on the bus?
  3. Students have been evacuated from a school bus stopped on a roadway. Where should they be led, and why that spot?
  4. Planning ahead for a school bus evacuation includes assigning older student assistants to the emergency exits. Why can that assignment not be the whole plan?