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Five students, three chaperones and the drivers of bus and FedEx truck were killed, according to the California Highway Patrol and Humboldt State University

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Massive flames are seen devouring both vehicles just after a crash in California on April 10, 2014. The FedEx tractor-trailer crossed a grassy freeway median in Northern California and slammed into the bus carrying high school students on a visit to a college.JEREMY LOCKETT/The Associated Press

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A California Highway Patrol Officer photographs the crash scene on April 11, 2014, where a tour bus and a FedEX truck crashed on Interstate 5 the day before in Orland, Calif.RICH PEDRONCELLI/The Associated Press

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Rescue workers, police and firefighters work the scene of the crash on April 10, 2014, near Orland, Calif.GREG BARNETTE/The Associated Press

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Rescuers tend to walking wounded after a fiery crash involving several vehicles on April 10, 2014, just north of Orland, Calif.DAN REIDEL/The Associated Press

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California highway patrol officer Tracy Hoover surveys the wreckage at the scene of a collision of a tractor-trailer and a tour bus on Interstate 5 near Highway 32 near Orland, Calif., on April 10, 2014.DAN REIDEL/CHICO ENTERPRISE RECO/Reuters

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A school bus arrives to transport victims to a Red Cross shelter in Orland, Calif., on April 10, 2014.GREG BARNETTE/The Associated Press

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A pair of California highway patrol officers walk past the burned out tour bus.RICH PEDRONCELLI/The Associated Press

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