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Canandaigua bus driver rescues woman from pit bull attack
Posted: 09.26.2012 at 8:42 AM
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CANANDAIGUA (AP) -- A 75-year-old school bus driver in western New York is being credited with fighting off two pit bulls after they attacked a woman and her family's dog as she pushed her grandson in a stroller.

David Bliss tells Rochester media outlets that he had just dropped off his last group of students Monday afternoon when he saw Cynthia Devaney and the 10-year-old golden retriever being attacked along a road in Canandaigua.

The stroller with the grandson inside had been knocked by the time Bliss pulled over. He jumped out of the bus and beat the dogs until they backed off, but not before being bitten several times. Devaney and her family's dog were also bitten, but her grandson wasn't injured.

State police say the two pit bulls have been quarantined.

(Copyright ©2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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