EL MIRAGE, AZ (AZFamily) — June, a Valley teen, is in the hospital with severe burns after collapsing during her walk home from school and her family is blaming the changed bus routes.

“There was no one to pick her up from school, so she had to walk home,” said Brittany Smith, June’s aunt.

She said the Dysart Unified School District bus route change has proven to be dangerous. “Some good Samaritans found her in the roadway. We are very lucky she did not get hit by a car,” Smith said.

Smith’s 17-year-old niece was walking home from school on Aug. 1 in 112-degree heat. Due to the bus route changes, she walks about 2 miles each way. June stopped at a sandwich shop to take a break and get more water before suffering heat stroke and collapsing in the street.

“She has second and third-degre

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