Bus driver rescues shoeless 5-year-old wandering in the bitter cold
Bus driver rescues shoeless 5-year-old wandering in the bitter cold. Denise Wilson, a Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver, is being praised after rescuing a five-year-old boy wandering alone at night in twenty degree weather, wearing nothing but a T-shirt, shorts and socks.
Around midnight on January 28th, Wilson stopped to take a break from her bus route in Milwaukee.
“At first, I thought I wasn’t going to stop. I’m just going to keep going to get the night done with, but then I was like ‘oh, stop, stretch a little bit, get some air,'” Wilson said.
When she pulled over, she saw a young boy running down the street alone, in the bitter cold.
“As I was securing the bus, I heard someone hollering. I heard someone crying and running up the street,” Wilson said.
Temperatures were in the low 20s that night, and the 5-year-old boy was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and no shoes. He told Wilson he was lost.
“I picked him up because he just had his pajamas on and no shoes, so I hurried and picked him up,” Wilson said.
Bus driver rescues lost child and keeps him safe and warm until help arrives. Source: ridemcts
Wilson took the boy to the nearest gas station, where she bought him some snacks and a man gave him a hoodie.
Surveillance video shows Wilson carrying the child back to her bus and wrapping him up in her coat to keep him warm.
“I asked him if he was still cold, and so I put my jacket around him and wrapped him up — wrapped him to get warm. He ended up falling asleep on the bus,” she said. “He ate his snack and fell asleep.”
Wilson stayed with him until Milwaukee police arrived.
According to police, the boy had reportedly wandered away from home. The Milwaukee police commended Wilson for “making sure a scary situation didn’t go from bad to worse”.
“God puts us in places where He needs us at times,” Wilson said.
Denise Wilson has been working as a bus driver for the Milwaukee County Transit System for about six months.
