Giants fans start early to snag prime parade spots

By WTOP Staff
October 31, 2014 | 4:30 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Giants fans are already grabbing prime viewing spots for the team’s victory parade through downtown.

Dozens of fans in Giants gear set up chairs behind barriers along Market Street by 6:30 a.m. Friday, 5 1/2 hours before the parade starts.

Police estimate up to 2 million people could turn out to cheer the World Series champions despite what is forecast to be a rainy day.

The parade featuring double-decker buses for the players and floats of the Golden Gate Bridge will end at City Hall, where Mayor Ed Lee will honor the team with an onstage ceremony.

City Hall has been decked out in orange and black Giants banners.

School bus emergency? Fairfax County students have a plan to handle it

By Heather Gustafson
August 21, 2026 | 10:05 PM

This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. The wheels on the bus will soon be going round and round again in Fairfax County, Virginia, and some of its young riders are learning what to do if there’s an emergency on the way to school. The annual Safety Patrol Training Camp, hosted by Fairfax County Public Schools' Office of Transportation Services, combined hands-on exercises with classroom lessons to teach students how to keep calm during emergencies on buses. The training can feel remarkably realistic, with overturned school buses on their side or completely upside down in the middle of the county bus depot. Other buses, right side up, fill with smoke that is water-based but mimics the intensity of a bus overheating.

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