A bus driver and 15 students were forced to abandon the school bus they were on traveling to Monticello Middle School in Ohio when one of the wheels burst into flames on Thursday, Feb. 27. The driver was praised for reacting 'quickly' to the situation and evacuating the students.

Video shared online shows the yellow school bus fully engulfed in flames in a residential area of Cleveland and spewing black smoke into the sky.

A school bus caught on fire while taking kids to school in northern Ohio Thursday morning. The bus was on the way to Monticello Middle School in Cleveland Heights when it burst into flames, WOIO in Cleveland reported. Gene Hackman death: Gas company assisting with investigation; Hackman, wife found in different rooms