As a school bus driver, Mebal Kaanyi has to pay attention.

So when she was driving her afternoon bus route last week for Roseville Area Schools, she noticed a four-year-old boy running down the street crying. He didn’t appear to have parents with him and was barefoot with no sweatshirt, she said.

“He crossed that Owasso Boulevard, as busy as it was, and went to the other side of the road and on that side, it’s a lake – Lake Owasso,” Kaanyi, of Shoreview, said.

Despite fencing by the lake, Kaanyi said the gate must not have been latched and the boy was able to make it to the water where he fell in.

“Of course, even me, I was terrified on entering the water because I do not know how to swim,” she said. “I’ve never done that in my whole life so I was afraid to follow him, but still, somet

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