Jose Rivera-Perez was already responding to an accident when the real emergency found him.
He’s a special education bus manager for Radloff Middle School — the kind of job where you’re trained for the worst and hope it never comes. That afternoon, he was headed to a Code Five, district shorthand for an accident, when he saw something worse. A bus was on fire.
He came upon it directly: Zebiba Juber’s bus, flames visible, students still inside…