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Hesperia, Calif., Schools Prepared for Emergencies.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: Tuesday, November 4 2003

By Emily Berg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 4--HESPERIA, Calif.--Hesperia Unified School District has nearly 900 sleeping bags as well as food and water stowed away to take care of children during an emergency.

The district got to try out part of its emergency plan last week. Its high schools housed hundreds of mountain residents fleeing wild fires, rather than students, but the strategic plan worked just as well, said Superintendent Dick Bray.

"It largely validated all the planning we have been d

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