“I’m just grateful I was in the right place at the right time,” Irena said. However, with a mother’s instinct, she immediately pulled the bus over and ran to pick up the little boy, giving him refuge inside the warm bus. And now, people are calling her a hero after she saved a toddler she found running around on the freezing sidewalk of the road alone.Īround 8 am on December 22, 2018, she was on her route when she came across this shocking situation. She has two children and has been working at MCTS for 12 years.
Irena Ivic is originally from Serbia in Eastern Europe. Because of her heroic act, Irena received an award from her employer.
Ivic will be honored for her heroic actions on Thursday.Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver, Irena Ivic, rescued a baby boy who was running barefoot and alone along an icy cold road. Authorities eventually reunited the child with her father.Īuthorities say this is the ninth lost or missing child found by Milwaukee County Transit System drivers in recent years. Police said the baby had been left outside by her mother who may have been suffering from a mental health crisis. Besides being cold and scared, authorities said the girl was unharmed. A passenger on the bus took off her jacket to help keep the girl warm as Ivic comforted the tot, who quickly fell asleep in her arms.įirefighters, police officers and transit security officers arrived on the scene a short time later. Ivic stopped her bus, ran across the busy street and picked up the crying child, before bringing her on board the bus. The child, who was less than a year old, was barefoot and wearing only a onesie and diaper. Milwaukee County bus driver Irena Ivic spotted the child running on the side of the road just before 8 a.m. MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin - Heart-stopping video was captured last month involving a bus driver rescuing a baby girl that she spotted alone on a freeway overpass. Heart stopping video captured a bus driver rescuing a baby girl that she spotted alone on a freeway overpass last month.
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