Two adults and two children were taken to the hospital after a school bus crashed into a building in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood Monday, according to police.
The bus crashed into a house at the corner of Claridge Terrace and Wentworth Street around 4:40 p.m., according to police.
Officials said four people on the bus — two adults and two children — were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.
"My husband called me, and he was panicked and said, 'A bus hit the house,'" homeowner Donna Scott recalled. "And I'm thinking to myself, 'How?'"
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Scott, who grew up in the house, says she rushed home to the crash scene.
"When I got here, there was a Boston Public School bus wedged under the porch," she said.
"It sounded like she was screeching to try to stop with the brakes, but the brakes didn't work or something," said Keyanna Jackson, who was nearby and helped evacuate students.
She and a neighbor jumped into action to evacuate the children out the back door.
"We got all the kids off the bus, and when we got all the kids onto the sidewalk, I did an evaluation on the kids," Jackson said. "About three of them hit their heads."
Anilson Carvalho, an 11-year-old who lives across the street, says his cousin also helped.
"The first thing she did — she got the kids off the bus first, because that's what she wanted, because she didn't know if the bus would catch on fire or anything," he said. "She got them off the bus, put them on the bus, called their moms."
Utilities at the home were shut off as crews cautiously removed the bus.
"It knocked out the columns that support the porch, and we were afraid the porch was going to come down, so they had to take their time, deflate the tires and move it slowly," Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke said.
