CA Medical Trade School Roof Collapses

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Dear All,

I first heard about this from Karin from WA as she sent me the site

link via her newsupdate service. I highly recommend you join it.

Any way since I read tha temail I have had so many people contact me

worried that the 'school' may be the one that I teach at. Don't worry

people: I live in Orange County but I work in Long Beach, so I am

safe.

I am howver concerned for the hospitalized and injured.

Funny thing was I just recommended this school to someone early this

morning before I knew about the problem. The school is

California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and

Programs www.carocp.org/

I found this out by googling the school spokesperson's name.

Wishing evryone well and they are in our prayers. I attened some

classes there for my adult teaching credential in which it served as

a sattelite campus for USD. I live about 6 miles away from this

school. I also attended my Health Education for Teachers classes

there.

Here is a copy of that story and its link:

http://news./s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_us/western_weather

" Calif. storm collapses school roof, snarls travel

Tue Dec 16, 2:00 am ET

LOS ANGELES – California took a pounding Monday from a powerful storm

that collapsed the roof of a trade school, made roads treacherous and

forced residents from homes out of fear of mudslides from fire-

stripped hillsides.

Interstate 15, the main route connecting Southern California and Las

Vegas, was closed by heavy snow in a mountain pass east of Los

Angeles. Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was snarled by snow that

forced the California Highway Patrol to shepherd motorists over

another pass.

About 20,000 customers lost power across the state, utilities

reported. At its height Monday, the storm triggered hundreds of

fender-bender traffic accidents on freeways, highways and surface

streets across California, Washington and Nevada.

In Anaheim, students and teachers fled a trade school when the roof

of a classroom collapsed during heavy rain Monday. Twelve students

and two staff members were hospitalized with mostly minor injuries,

and all but one were released by afternoon, said Lynn Porter,

assistant superintendent of educational services.

About 150 students were at the center, which prepares high school

students and adults for medical occupations, said spokeswoman Pat

Hansmeyer. Only three of the students were minors, and they were not

injured, she said.

In Yorba , where 100 homes were lost to a wildfire last month,

hundreds of residences in the canyon areas were ordered evacuated

Monday morning because of the threat of mudslides. But the threat

eased later in the day.

" We're getting some minor mud issues coming down, but we haven't

really had any very large mudslide issues, " said Lt. Gregg Hayden of

the Brea Police Department, which serves Yorba .

The area was one of several placed under a flash-flood watch because

hillsides and canyons had been stripped of vegetation by recent

wildfires, increasing the chances of severe flooding and mudslides.

A section of the Pacific Coast Highway in the Sunset Beach area was

closed in both directions by flooding.

At least three deaths were linked to the storm. A California Highway

Patrol officer directing traffic around an accident in Hacienda

Heights, east of Los Angeles, was hit by an out-of-control car, said

patrol Officer Terry Liu. One person was killed in the San Diego area

when an armored truck slid off a wet highway and rolled down an

embankment.

Authorities said the storm also contributed to the death Sunday of a

61-year-old man who was washed off a jetty by large waves in Crescent

City.

Ski areas east of Los Angeles got a big coating of snow, but travel

in the rugged mountain resort region nearly impossible in many areas.

At Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Mountain Resort reported nearly 18 inches of

snow by Monday, and Squaw Valley USA reported 22 inches of new snow.

The storm had moved into California from Oregon, where it delayed

flights out of Portland on Sunday and broke the record low

temperature for the day Monday when the airport reported 22 degrees.

Some highways in northwestern Oregon were closed over the weekend

because of icy conditions, and Interstate 205 was briefly closed

Monday after a tanker full of deicing chemicals turned over.

It also brought snow and freezing weather to Washington state, where

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hit a record low of 19 degrees

early Monday. "

Prayers to all,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Pharm Tech Educator

Founder/Owner