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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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ShakeOut drill postponed

Cerritos College’s plans on participating on the Great California ShakeOut Earthquake preparedness drill have been partially postponed.

The purpose of the drill according to ShakeOut.org is to “practice how to protect ourselves during earthquakes, and to get prepared at work, school, and home.”

Cerritos College is susceptible to earthquakes especially because it lives right on the active San Andrea’s Fault.

ShakeOut stresses the importance of getting ready, last year about 5.5 million Southern Californians participated, the event is established to happen on the third Thursday of October each year.

Oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m. many businesses, facilities and schools in California participating in the drill will be experiencing a 30-minute long alarm in which Californians are asked to “drop, cover and hold” as if experiencing an earthquake.

During that time, the Great California ShakeOut requires the sounding of evacuation alarms for 30 minutes.

Unfortunately, at Cerritos some faculty and students will be pinned to final exams for nine-week classes.

The decision to postpone the drill came in consideration of those students, they can’t be interrupted by loud alarms during their finals.

A new date for an evacuation drill at Cerritos is expected to be set in the spring time. 

Although the “drop, cover and hold,” at Cerritos has been postponed, faculty members is encouraged to still participate and evacuate their classrooms to coincide with the California ShakeOut drill happening at other places, or at their convenience just for practice. 

There will not be an announcement but they should initiate and end a drill in their classrooms.

Procedure videos may be viewed during this time and are on the ShakeOut’s Youtube video channel.

The point of the statewide drill is to get ready, California in fact is a red-zone for earthquakes, the drill will definitely help us get ready and practice for a disaster.

Cerritos College’s evacuation plans and procedures can be found on posters in classrooms or online at http://cms.cerritos.edu/secure/forms/master_emergency_operations_plan_090909a.pdf.

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