The Firefighter Who Crawled Into the Wreckage

In 2018, a school bus carrying thirty-seven children slid off an icy bridge near Indianapolis and landed on its side in a frozen creek bed. Rescue crews arrived within minutes, but the children inside were screaming, terrified, pinned between twisted metal and shattered glass. The firefighters could have worked entirely from outside — cutting through the roof with hydraulic tools, calling instructions through the broken windows.…