MADERA, Calif.<\/strong> \u2014 Two farmworkers, Carlos Perea Romero<\/strong> and Angel Zarco<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n are being hailed as heroes after rescuing 20 children from a burning school bus on September 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perea saw smoke coming from the bus and, with Zarco, rushed to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were just making sure the kids were far away enough so that they wouldn\u2019t get hurt,\u201d Zarco said. Moments later, \u201cthe bus caught fire right away\u2026 within like two minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Madera County Board of Supervisors<\/strong> recognized the men for \u201cselfless courage and bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perea said, \u201cGod put you in that place for a reason\u2026 to help out the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CAL FIRE\u2019s Larry Pendarvis<\/strong> reminded, \u201cBuses can be replaced, humans can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheriff Tyson Pogue<\/strong> added, \u201cTheir quick thinking, bravery, and compassion\u2026 exemplify the very best of Madera County.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heroes Save 20 Children MADERA, Calif. \u2014 Two farmworkers, Carlos Perea Romero and Angel Zarco, are being hailed as heroes after rescuing 20 children from a burning school bus on September 4. Quick Action Prevents Tragedy Perea saw smoke coming from the bus and, with Zarco, rushed to help. \u201cWe were just making sure the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Quick Action Prevents Tragedy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Honored for Bravery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Community Gratitude<\/h3>\n\n\n\n