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Prestonsburg bus tragedy remains most disastrous bus disasters in US history
- The Prestonsburg bus tragedy of 1958 remains tied for the deadliest U.S. school bus crash.
- A bus with Floyd County students plunged after heavy rains, drowning 26 children and a driver.
- Navy divers spent 55 hours locating the submerged bus in the Levisa Fork river.
- The National Guard conducted a 69-day search to recover all 27 victims.
- The 1988 bus tragedy in Kentucky later matched the death toll, prompting safety changes.
- Kentucky updated its public school bus equipment rules after the 1988 crash.
- Communities remember the victims and the turning point for emergency services.
- Families and the National Guard helped shape how communities respond to emergencies.
- The event is remembered as a defining moment in local emergency services history.
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