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00:00This morning, a veteran MTA bus operator is being called a hero for his quick actions on the job in Manhattan.

00:07Pretty incredible. Louis Jimenez was driving his bus when he noticed the little girl on the sidewalk.

00:11Then she ran into the street and that's when his fatherly instincts kicked in.

00:16I mean, how scary is that? Here's Eyewitness News reporter Lindsay Tuckman with the story.

00:21It was a Tuesday in September and MTA bus driver Louis Jimenez was considering calling out sick.

00:28But thankfully, he didn't.

00:30My instinct as a father came on because I would see a kid, if I see a kid in the street in need of help,

00:40I would want somebody to help one of my children or one of my grandkids.

00:45Yep, the 60-year-old was just wrapping up his morning shift on the Crosstown M116

00:50when he spotted a 5-year-old girl, seemingly by herself, on the sidewalk near 106th Street and Broadway.

00:57You know, my wife always, you know, kind of like, she's worried about me

01:02because she knows that when I see something, it's like we have a saying in the MTA,

01:07if you see something, say something, or well, with me, I will do something.

01:12And indeed, Louis keeps an eye on her for a block or so before telling a passenger to call 911.

01:18He then pulls over and calls his dispatcher, and with the help of other riders, gets the young girl on the bus.

01:25Police arrive and get her safely back to her family.

01:28Apparently, her school, which was 10 blocks away, had reported her missing when she wasn't in class.

01:34Police say the little girl didn't have a history of leaving school, but her pet fish had just died.

01:40And so on that day, she left with the plan to go to a pet store and buy a new one.

01:45You hope she got that fish?

01:47Well, hopefully, it's either if she didn't get it, we should help out on trying to get it for her.

01:52Les temps sont difficiles et il y a des choses qui se passent tous les jours.

01:57Et tous les jours, nous devons venir avec une attitude positive et être en mesure,

02:01même si c'est négatif partout dans le monde, nous devons aller à l'avant et faire la différence.

02:10À Harlem, Lindsay Tuckman, Channel 7 Eyewitness News.