Cordova High School will transform into a disaster zone Thursday as students there participate in a fake evacuation for their graduation drill.
More than 100 students and emergency personnel will take part in dealing with the mock disaster Thursday morning at the high school at 2239 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.
The drill is meant to demonstrate skills of the school's Teen Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT.
The school's Teen CERT program is the first to be implemented in Rancho Cordova and within the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District, said Carol Willis, the Sacramento Region Citizen Corps Council's Teen CERT coordinator, in a news release.
The drill will begin at 8:15 a.m. with an "explosion" in the culinary classroom.
The campus' fire alarm will activate, students and staff will be evacuated, a 911 call will be made, and the school's emergency system will alert parents, the release states.
The scenario includes an overwhelmed emergency response system, so when 911 is called, emergency personnel will be busy working on a multi-casualty collision on Highway 50.
Teen CERT members will be notified and will go to the command center at the school to conduct "size-up, light search and rescue, triage and treatment," the release states.
Thirty teens will perform search-and-rescue functions and more than 75 students will act as victims, the release states.
Teen CERT is part of the Sacramento Region Citizen Corps Council. The first Teen CERT class began in 2007, and six schools have implemented the program. There are 130 Teen CERT members, the release states.
Teen CERT members also are trained to assist fire department CERT teams.
For more information about the Sacramento Region Citizen Corps Council, go to www.srccc.org or call (916) 264-8650.
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