Metro Transit Driver Being Praised As Hero After Rescuing Man From Burning Car In Minneapolis

CBS Minnesota

April 1, 2026

A Metro Transit driver training instructor is being praised after rescuing a man from a burning vehicle while leading a training session in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Kenneth Johnson, who has been a bus driver for 10 years and an instructor for nearly four, was working with two students on March 13 when he came across a crash near 25th Street and Portland Avenue.

Johnson, who works out of Metro Transit's instruction center, training new bus operators, said the morning had started like any other.

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