Tim Homann has been a bus driver for 18 years, but never, in nearly two decades, had he seen anything like this; as he was driving down Fisher Street in Madison, OH, he noticed something unusual.
“I got closer and closer, and it appeared to be a little baby out there,” Homann said. The little girl was only 18 months old, wearing nothing but a diaper and a T-shirt.
She was completely alone and standing near a parked car. Homann was terrified that another driver may not see her.
“I’m going to get that baby. That’s pretty much what I told myself and I looked up ahead there for cars," he said.
Security footage captured Homann stopping the bus, getting out, and approaching the little one.
“Then I asked her if it was OK if I picked her up. So I knelt down and I put my arms out and she put her arms up and said, 'Momma.' "
While bus drivers may seem ordinary, they have been known to react quickly; another bus driver, Darnell Barton, talked a woman off the ledge of a bridge.
He couldn't find out where the child had come from. He searched through the streets but decided to head toward a nearby daycare center.
"All of a sudden her dad comes across the street and is happy, very happy," Homann said. Apparently, her father had fallen asleep, and the baby, left to her own devices, wandered outside.
Homann is just grateful to have been there in that moment. "I was in the right place at the right time," he said.
See the heart-stopping footage below and SHARE if you think community members should be mindful of each other's children — because anything can happen.
