Close to 300 students from Woodland Heights Elementary School participated in the school's third annual evacuation drill on Friday morning. The kids were assisted by roughly 30 high school students in training for the Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, in law enforcement and allied health classes at the Huot Career and Technical Center at Laconia High School. High schoolers directed the kids and prevented them from walking into the road. The elementary students started at Woodland Heights and walked with their teachers to LHS. The drill aims to make kids comfortable with the route in the event a real evacuation is required in an emergency. A CERT is usually a group of adults deployed after a natural disaster or public health emergency. While the high school students are not deployed in real emergency situations, the drill gives them experience in large group situations in a controlled environment.

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