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- Pupils’ lives spared during Falmont
- earthquake
- By Raymond Tran
- 18 March
- FALMONT—On 17 March, 476 students and 36 teachers at
- Falmont Primary School escaped an earthquake that hit the
- county at 2:27 p.m. Only 5 students suffered slight
- injuries, despite the current figures of 7 killed and over
- 200 injured in the disaster area at large.
- Alice Brown, head teacher at Falmont Primary School, was
- teaching when the floor began to shake. Her students’
- reaction was quick and correct—they moved under their
- desks, head first, and held on to the legs of the desks.
- At the same time, Miss Brown quickly opened the classroom
- door, in case it became damaged during the shaking and
- could not open. There were loud crashes of glass breaking
- and things falling to the ground, but the students
- remained still and waited calmly and quietly.
- The moment the shaking stopped, Miss Brown sensed it was
- the best time for the class to make their escape. She
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- signalled to her students to exit the classroom in an
- orderly line covering their heads with their hands. Within
- one minute and twenty seconds, the whole class went down
- the stairs and rushed to the playground. Soon students
- from other classes arrived too. After a roll call
- confirmed that all were safe and sound, they relaxed,
- laughing, crying and hugging each other.
- “We practise earthquake safety procedures twice a
- year,” said Miss Brown, “so the kids were calm enough
- to protect themselves during the earthquake.”
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