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Published May 12, 2008 07:56 pm - School holds gas leak drill By David Lazenby davidl@cullmantimes
COLD SPRINGS — Although the gas leak near Cold Springs schools was just hot air, the scenario used during a mock emergency drill Monday made sure students and school officials were ready for the real deal. Officials said students, teacher and administrators were able to rise to the occasion, evacuating the school quickly. “They evacuated both buildings in under two minutes,” said Hank Allen, superintendent of Cullman County Schools. After students were moved a safe distance from the facility, school buses took them to Ryan Street Baptist Church, the meeting place designated for emergency evacuations. “I guess we’re the largest facility in the neighborhood,” said church pastor Keith Gambill, who added, “We have the facilities to be able to provide a place for them, so we’re willing to do that.” Gambill added the church serves as the “Red Cross station for emergencies in this neck of the woods.” Once the evacuation was completed, Cold Springs High School Principal William Calvert congratulated the student body and said getting out of school early that day was a reward for their effort. “This is a necessary thing,” Calvert said. “We never know when a disaster is going to hit our school, and now we have an idea of what we will do.” This was not the first time the school system has had an emergency drill. Last year, schools at Hanceville practiced for the event of a gunman going onto campus. Allen said this time the school system wanted to practice a scenario in which students had to be evacuated from school. “We found we had deficits in our plan and we wanted to address that,” Allen said. “We just needed to practice.” To pull off the practice run, the school system partnered with several county agencies including the Sheriff’s Department, roads department, area fire departments, Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross. Officials with these agencies will meet in the near future to discuss what can be done to improve the evacuation process. “We’ll sit down and do a debriefing with all the agencies that were involved just like we did at Hanceville,” Allen said. “That’s when we’ll find out where we made mistakes.” 
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