Fifteen students were swiftly evacuated by a school bus driver after the bus caught fire en route to a middle school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Fifteen students were saved from a bus that was engulfed in flames -- and the driver is now being hailed a hero.

A school bus caught on fire while taking kids to school in northern Ohio Thursday morning. The bus was on the way to Monticello Middle School in Cleveland Heights when it burst into flames, WOIO in Cleveland reported. Gene Hackman death: Gas company assisting with investigation; Hackman, wife found in different rooms

The bus driver acted quickly and got all of the students off the bus and to safety,' according to the Cleveland Heights Fire Department.

The FOX 8 I-Team has learned of an emergency Thursday morning on a school bus with children in Cleveland Heights.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (WEWS/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - An Ohio bus driver's quick thinking helped save 15 middle school students Thursday. A school bus carrying Monticello Middle School students was engulfed in flames on Thursday, but all passengers were safely evacuated, thanks to the quick actions of the bus driver.

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