Irena comforted the little boy, who soon fell asleep in her arms, another passenger offered her coat to the baby too. “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. Although there are no details, the police returned the baby to his dad after discovering his mother had left him outside.Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver, Irena Ivic, rescued a baby boy who was running barefoot and alone along an icy cold road. The baby nodded off to sleep by the time the authorities arrived. Visibly shocked, the driver returned to her bus and held the little boy closely in her arms, while a kind passenger brought up her coat to wrap the baby in. She stopped her bus and ran across the road to grab him and bring him to safety. Luckily for the boy, and all of us watching the film in disbelief, Ivic reacted quickly. In the short footage released by Milwaukee County Transit System, we can see the driver’s initial shock and disbelief of witnessing the little boy - who isn’t even a year old - running barefoot down the road in just his red onesie in temperatures below freezing. Footage from a recent surveillance video showed how bus driver Irena Ivic from Milwaukee, rescued a young boy toddling down a freeway overpass on a cold December morning.
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