HOWLAND The Trumbull County Board of Developmental Disabilities (TCBDD) Transportation Department was in Howland on Tuesday for a training drill to educate staff on how to handle a school bus fire and evacuation.

The training took place at the Howland Public Works and Road Department, located at 3600 North River Road in Howland. It featured post-collision, fire and evacuation training.

Several groups were placed into small teams in order to get the full effect of the training.

Teams were able to simulate how students in safety seating could be evacuated safely, and how to conduct an evacuation where a fire is present during a school bus rollover.

"We have a few different students in different safety seating so our drivers and aides can see how a rollover crash would affect those stud

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