L.A.’s Schools Practice for the ‘Big One’
Students and teachers throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District scrambled for cover beneath desks Tuesday morning in the district’s annual earthquake preparedness drill. The purpose of the drill was to test each school’s emergency plan and evaluate the district’s new emergency communications system of 22,000 telephones and 2,500 radios.
The 52-second temblor “struck” at 10:25 a.m. First-aid stations were set up and some students and staff members at each school pretended to be injured or dead.
At Grant High School in Van Nuys, the drill began with a demonstration of the Automatic Seismic Emergency Annunciation System, which is capable of providing a warning signal several seconds before a major quake.
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