CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – To help with the city’s back-to-school efforts, Charlottesville’s first responders were on hand at some school bus stops Monday.
A city police and fire spokesman said the City Manager and first-responder leadership put together the plan overnight Sunday into Monday to help students at bus stops going back to school after a week off due to the winter snowstorm.
“It’s very important because we wanted to make sure the kids could go back, obviously they can’t keep missing days so we wanted to get them back safely,” spokesperson Kyle Ervin told Cville Right Now. “So we called upon the fire department, the police department, we all joined forces and we’re at designated spots across the city helping them cross the street, making sure they’re not stepping on slick spots, and even Chief was out in his 10th & Page neighborhood assisting kids,” Ervin said.
There are about 150 bus stops in the city, and Ervin said Rose Hill Drive and Westwood Avenue, about a-quarter mile from the Charlottesville Media Group building where Cville Right Now is housed…