Did Santa Ana students duck and cover in the great shakeout?”
At Fremont Elementary in Santa Ana, students in Alice Borja’s fifth-grade class dashed under desks when the school’s alarm went off. They stayed in place for about two minutes before calmly filing out the school’s ball fields. “I grabbed on tight to my desk’s legs,” said Luis Lomeli, 10. “I learned that’s the best way to stay safe.” It was part of the Great California Shakeout, in which thousands of school children across Orange County practiced this morning for a big quake by crawling under desks, filing out to athletic fields, and simulating injuries. Campuses from Newport Beach to Fullerton joined in the coordinated exercise also conducted at 10:15 a.m. by hospitals, police and fire departments, business and other agencies. As part of the drill, some of the teachers and students were left behind inside their rooms, simulating people trapped in buildings after an earthquake. Mock search and rescue teams then went back and attempted to find the missing people. Meanwhile, a triage unit
By FERMIN LEAL The Orange County Register Comments 0 | Recommend 0 At Fremont Elementary in Santa Ana, students in Alice Borja’s fifth-grade class dashed under desks when the school’s alarm went off. They stayed in place for about two minutes before calmly filing out the school’s ball fields. “I grabbed on tight to my desk’s legs,” said Luis Lomeli, 10. “I learned that’s the best way to stay safe.” It was part of the Great California Shakeout, in which thousands of school children across Orange County practiced this morning for a big quake by crawling under desks, filing out to athletic fields, and simulating injuries. Campuses from Newport Beach to Fullerton joined in the coordinated exercise also conducted at 10:15 a.m. by hospitals, police and fire departments, business and other agencies. As part of the drill, some of the teachers and students were left behind inside their rooms, simulating people trapped in buildings after an earthquake. Mock search and rescue teams then went back
