A quick-thinking bus driver is receiving praise for springing into action after she spotted a young child wandering alone and barefoot in the middle of a busy street in Florida.

Barbara Baker, a driver and grandmother, stopped her bus on Route 12 in Tampa just after 7 a.m. on Aug. 31 to help the child, who was wearing pajamas, according to video posted by the Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART) on Wednesday.

“Oh my God,” Baker can be heard saying in video footage that was taken from inside the bus. “Look at the baby out there by himself.”

She stopped the bus and hurried out its front door to help the child.

“Come here, baby,” she told the little boy before scooping up the child, who by then had made his way to the side of the road.

The boy was unable to communicate where his home

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