California bus crash: Real-time updates from Los Angeles Times

10 people are killed when a charter bus carrying high school students collides with a freight truck. Los Angeles Times reporters provide information in real time.

4/11/2014 2:49:43 PM tenny.tatusian
Ten people are dead after a FedEx truck collided head-on with a tour bus in Northern California. The bus was carrying students and chaperones from Los Angeles. Read real-time updates here.

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by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 2:38:24 PM
Humbolt leaders are waiting to meet with students while TV in hospital waiting room shows news of crash. Everyone silently watches.
by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 2:38:27 PM
Just arrived at Enloe Hospital -- Humbolt State University president and vice president, here to meet with injured students
by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 2:38:29 PM
How did this bus crash survivor let his friends know he was ok? He sent a @Snapchat from his hospital bed. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8csxOCEAAQ3Zv.jpg
by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 2:38:34 PM
Good morning from Chico, where we're waiting to hear more about the injured students from Orland crash. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8bqZWCEAIYILq.jpg
by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 2:49:03 PM
Flags are flying at half mast at Humbolt State today. President has been visiting students in hospitals all morning.
by stephenceasar via twitter 4/11/2014 2:49:20 PM
Death toll in fiery bus crash rises to 10; 5 are high school students latimes.com/local/lanow/la… #LAUSD
by shelbygrad via twitter 4/11/2014 3:00:21 PM
Still have not come across a more vivid photo of the bus carrying teens and the Fed-Ex truck exploding on I-5 @KRCR7 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk6qVmACQAIQ_wT.jpg”
by shelbygrad via twitter 4/11/2014 3:00:26 PM
Eyewitness account of being on that burning bus by @ChrisMegerian (one of @latimes on scene in Orland) latimes.com/local/la-me-de…
by LATimesFreshInk via twitter retweeted by ChrisMegerian 4/11/2014 3:19:30 PM
#Orland bus crash: the latest, touch.latimes.com/#section /1780/… & via @ChrisMegerian on @KNX1070 at 8:20a
4/11/2014 3:27:02 PM Amy.Hubbard
Into the night, candles burned alongside the site of the bus crash in Orland, Calif., a makeshift memorial to those who died. In the background of the photo below, authorities used 3D imaging to document the accident scene. (
Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times )
4/11/2014 3:30:38 PM tenny.tatusian
Many of the injured students were Latinos aiming to be the first in their families to attend college, said Humbolt State University Rollin Richmond.
4/11/2014 3:31:12 PM Amy.Hubbard
Complicating the effort to confirm who was in which bus was the fact that the students came from multiple schools and districts, officials said. In the Greater Los Angeles area, students on the trip hailed from the following high schools: Chatsworth charter, Thomas Jefferson, Middle College, San Fernando, Ulysses S. Grant, Dorsey, John C. Fremont, City of Angels School, Robert F. Kennedy, Manual Arts, Banning, Carson and the Diego Rivera Learning Complex.
4/11/2014 3:32:39 PM tenny.tatusian
Witnesses described the horrific aftermath of the crash, the helplessness they felt as flames devoured the vehicles with people trapped inside.

Pomali Thitphaneth, a resident of a small nearby neighborhood, said she saw one victim screaming for help.

"It was like a man on fire."

- LATimes staff
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 3:34:19 PM
Disturbing remnants from yesterday's crash. Syringes and other debris from emergency medical teams also here. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8nQ2yCAAAIvob.jpg
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 3:34:23 PM
Orland residents next to I5 were first to arrive at crash, but blocked by fence from helping. "One boy was burning, shaking at the fence..."
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 3:39:03 PM
Victoria Posvancz couldn't cross a fence to help crash victims, so she bought Advil, blankets and took to Red Cross.
by FenitN via twitter retweeted by ChrisMegerian 4/11/2014 3:41:38 PM
High school across hall where students who survived Orland crash are staying
by Almendra Carpizo via twitter 4/11/2014 3:49:38 PM
Candles have been lit near crash site in Orland #buscrash http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk85ZpbCAAA-wHC.jpg
by NBC Bay Area via twitter 4/11/2014 3:50:02 PM
LIVE: Crane works to haul away college tour bus in #Orland from deadly site bit.ly/1jyim4J http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk85cJjIQAAZz-O.jpg
by RichardYChang via twitter 4/11/2014 3:50:40 PM
Panorama of #Orland scene http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk87W61CUAANvWm.jpg
by Chris Megerian via twitter 4/11/2014 3:52:35 PM
Updated numbers from @JosephSerna -- 10 bus crash patients still being cared for at 4 hospitals, 5 remain in critical condition
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 3:54:18 PM
What residents in Orland call "the fence" that prevented them from helping a burning man.
by taramoriarty via twitter 4/11/2014 3:54:51 PM
#RedCross shelter for survivors of the deadly #Orland #buscrash bit.ly/13nCOuz #KTVU 8:43am http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk84RP1CMAEyO0_.jpg
by Almendra Carpizo via twitter 4/11/2014 3:55:45 PM
This is what's left of that bus carrying students. #buscrash http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk83LhSCIAE6sE9.jpg
4/11/2014 4:01:59 PM ReneLynch
Jonathan Gutierrez, 17, was eager to sit at the front of the charter bus taking him and other Los Angeles-area students on a college visit to Humboldt County. But another student urged him to sit in the back. That change of heart may have saved his life.
by taramoriarty via twitter 4/11/2014 4:04:10 PM
#OrlandHighSchool shows support for victims of deadly #buscrash I-5 NB #KTVU 5 high school students from LA killed http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8-emiCAAA3Sx4.jpg
4/11/2014 4:05:43 PM ReneLynch
"I heard screaming... That's when I felt the impact of the truck" -- a teenager who survived the horrific bus crash recounts how he escaped with his life.
by SDuncovered via twitter 4/11/2014 4:09:42 PM
See that deadly bus crash from the eyes of a survivor: bitly.com/1i7rTje http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk88LYQCcAAmtMW.jpg
by SenatorBoxer via twitter 4/11/2014 4:09:59 PM
Words cannot express the sadness I feel for the families who lost children in this tragic bus crash in CA. I’m praying for the injured.
4/11/2014 4:10:47 PM ReneLynch
This just in, a statement from FedEx: "All of us at FedEx are deeply saddened by the tragic highway accident in California. Our hearts go out to all of those involved and their families.
We are cooperating fully with the officials investigating this accident."
by L.A. Times: L.A. Now via twitter retweeted by vane_pompa 4/11/2014 4:11:36 PM
RT @ChrisMegerian Flags are flying at half mast at Humbolt State today. President has been visiting students in hospitals all morning.
by Pasadena Star News via twitter 4/11/2014 4:15:35 PM
El Monte schools official: 3 students were in bus crash in Northern California, 2 possibly in the hospital, 3rd unaccounted for. #buscrash
by L.A. Times: L.A. Now via twitter retweeted by ChuckFlores3 4/11/2014 4:16:46 PM
MT @RickLoomis Singed clothing, some of the evidence of tragic bus crash on I-5 that killed 10. #orlandcrash http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8sw8ZCYAAfh4O.jpg
by Almendra Carpizo via twitter 4/11/2014 4:18:28 PM
8 students stayed overnight @ shelter, but 6 are there right now waiting to be picked up or arrange a way to get them home. #buscrash
4/11/2014 4:21:30 PM ReneLynch
“It was insane." That's how one witness described the scene of the tragic bush crash. Flames shot so high, and there was so much heat, that some thought -- wrongly -- that it was a propane fire.
by Heather Navarro via twitter 4/11/2014 4:23:05 PM
@NBCNews reports Sacramento County coroner ID's Arthur Arzola of Rancho Cucamonga as victim in #buscrash . bit.ly/1ewtpXE
by BenMullin via twitter 4/11/2014 4:26:01 PM
The president of Humboldt State is addressing the media now. @sacbee_news http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk8rLP7CEAA7zNB.jpg
by BenMullin via twitter 4/11/2014 4:26:23 PM
If students are still interested, the university will "arrange for them to get to Humboldt without a bus," President Richmond said.
by BenMullin via twitter 4/11/2014 4:26:41 PM
"As best we can tell, the bus drivers here were doing exactly what they should do and they couldn't have avoided this," Richmond said.
by BenMullin via twitter 4/11/2014 4:27:29 PM
VIDEO: "I turned my head a little, and I saw a ball of fire, I just saw flames going up." -Survivor @sacbee_news youtube.com/watch?v=WRIRHo… …
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 4:28:24 PM
Retrying ... The fence that blocked those who wanted to save a life http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk9EVYMCYAA3Ugw.jpg
by Paige St. John via twitter 4/11/2014 4:29:00 PM
What remains: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bk9EdsICYAAqUCo.png
4/11/2014 4:29:18 PM ReneLynch
Students enter Banning High School in Wilmington Friday morning to the news of a deadly bus crash that claimed at least 10 lives, including five Los Angeles-area students. The Los Angeles Unified School District said 19 of its students were on the bus at the time of the crash. Authorities are still working to identify the dead. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
by ShirleyJahad via twitter 4/11/2014 4:36:17 PM
#Sacto Coroner identified #buscrash victim, #Humboldt StateUniv counselor Arthur Arzola--sweet-faced man on left humboldt.edu/admissions/con…
by Joyce Terhaar via twitter 4/11/2014 4:37:02 PM
Update: Witness says fence prevented residents from helping victims of high school bus crash sacb.ee/1qFZx0h