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20 Students Unharmed After School Bus Fire In Maryland

BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- No one was injured after a school bus goes up in flames in Maryland on Monday.

It happened in the 9600 block of 51st Ave. in College Park, Prince George's County.

Mark Brady, a spokesperson with the Prince George's County Fire and EMS says there were 20 children from Glen Arden Woods Elementary School on the bus at the time of the blaze, but escaped uninjured.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Facebook user Fazlul Kabir, who apparently witnessed the blaze, said the bus driver took each of the 20 students out of the bus one by one while it was still burning.

"I am a mom of two kids. it's my job to save them" she told Kabir.

A big THANK YOU to our school bus driver Reneita Smith who just saved 20 elementary school kids from a bus fire that...

Posted by Fazlul Kabir on Monday, September 12, 2016

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