Evacuations must be planned, when government officials order hundreds of thousands of people to get in their cars and drive tragedies can result. A bus evacuating Houston exploded as its brakes stressed from stop and go traffic sent fire into the passenger compartment, filled with elderly patients with open oxygen tanks.
The New York Times reports:
A bus carrying elderly evacuees from an assisted living center in Houston was rocked by multiple explosions on its way to Dallas early this morning, killing at least 24 elderly residents.,
The bus was carrying 45 people - 38 residents, 6 staff members and the driver - from Brighton Gardens of Bellaire, an assisted living center in Bellaire, a suburb southwest of Houston, when it caught fire on Interstate 45, the main highway connecting Dallas and Houston. The explosions occurred near Wilmer, a suburb about 15 miles from downtown Dallas.
Witnesses and local officials said smoke, possibly from the brakes, had forced the driver to pull over to the side of the road before at least three explosions covered the bus in flames at about 7 a.m. Central time.
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