BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A transit bus driver is being credited for saving 10 people asleep inside a burning home in Buffalo, N.Y. After pounding on the door, Richard Lucas got back behind the wheel and finished his route. Lucas was driving a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority bus in South Buffalo around 6:30 a.m. Monday when he noticed smoke coming...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A transit bus driver is being credited for saving 10 people asleep inside a burning home in Buffalo, N.Y. After pounding on the door, Richard Lucas got back behind the wheel and finished his route.
Lucas was driving a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority bus in South Buffalo around 6:30 a.m. Monday when he noticed smoke coming from the back of a house. He says he stopped the bus, ran to the house and banged on the front door.
The noise awoke the 10 people sleeping inside the two-family home.
A woman living upstairs with her children and a man who lived downstairs with his wife and three kids say they all could have died if not for Lucas.
They didn't get a chance to thank him. Lucas finished his route, saying "people have got to go to work."