Twenty-two Minnesota students are very lucky Kari Thorp chose to step onto her front porch to greet her daughter getting off the school bus. She noticed a small fire low on the bus, warned the driver, and helped evacuate the students. Her doorbell camera caught the entire event.

Kari Thorp said, “As soon as I got out the door … I noticed the first flame right above the tire, and I immediately yelled, ‘Fire.’”

She and bus driver Rick Gratton were able to empty the vehicle together. They sent the kids—where else?—to wait on Thorp’s porch. The students had reportedly just finished a safety training which included how to evacuate off their bus safely.

Kari Thorp reflects on the bus evacuation

“I just wanted to get them off as quickly as we can because I didn’t know what was going to happen, and I didn’t know how fast this fire … like if it was going to explode right then and there or what.”

It took approximately five minutes for the school bus to be engulfed in flames, but thanks to Thorp, the children were already waiting safely nearby.

Speaking with the news, Thorp admitted, “A lot of emotions just keep coming up the more you talk about it… and [I] realize how amazing this community is.”

You can see the camera footage embedded below: