Bystanders credited with saving students from burning school bus in north Fla.By Associated Press
10:11 AM EDT, September 24, 2008

CITRA, Fla. (AP) _ Passers-by are being credited with pulling students from a school bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in north Florida, killing one teenager, a school official said.

"This was a tragedy, but it's also a miracle," Marion County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey told the Ocala Star-Banner. "We're lucky one person got out of there alive."

About 20 middle and high school students were on the bus when it was rear-ended Tuesday afternoon. Two were critically injured and several others had injuries not considered life-threatening.

The student who died was identified as Frances M. Schee, 13.

"The kid was lodged and I just couldn't get
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What an unfortunate tragedy.