You may have heard about Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs). Now, there are School Emergency Response Teams (SERTs). These groups train monthly to respond to schools in the event of an emergency, much like their CERT counterparts. For example, in Jenks, Oklahoma a SERT held a drill during their last training session to respond to students on school buses:
“We have the same issues with the students going to hospitals trying to track those students, how many students we have on the bus, so on and so forth, and the same scenario played out yesterday,” Dixon says.
Will your children be safe on a school bus if there’s an emergency? A children’s survival kit is a must have for every child attending school. If there’s an emergency, they can have easy access to supplies in their book bags to help them and perhaps their classmates. Time is of the essence in an emergency, and there may not be time to wait for their local SERT to show up.
A children’s survival kit includes a N95 mask that your children can wear to prevent them from breathing harmful contaminants in the air, as a result of natural disasters or a terrorist attack.
Source:
http://krmg.com/localnews/2009/12/school-emergency-response-team.html