Escambia County Public Schools, Florida Highway Patrol provide much-needed cooldown to William Carey track team stranded on I-10

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WLOX) — On Thursday, 41 members of the William Carey men’s track team were traveling to the SSAC Championship in Gainesville, Fla., when their charter bus broke down on I-10 in Escambia County, Fla.

According to a Thursday post on the Escambia County Public Schools (ECPS) Facebook page, the team was halted in a construction area. With the bus’s air conditioning no longer working, the college students were left in Florida’s humid 75-degree heat with no escape from the sun.

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