For Centennial High students, Wednesday, April 2 was not a normal day. During fourth period (lunchtime for many students), an announcement came to immediately evacuate the building for an undisclosed reason. School newspaper editor-in-chief and senior Yaanik Desai said that he and his fellow students were caught by surprise when the announcement came.
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"We were at lunch when the announcement came," he said. "Because everyone wasn't in class, it wasn't as organized as it could have been the evacuation was a little haphazard, but we all got out to the stadium pretty quickly."
Desai said that the students immediately ruled out a fire or storm because the school did not go through the normal fire or storm drills. He recalls that there was not much fear in his fellow students because no one thought it was an intruder or a bomb threat.
Once they got outside, several teachers said that it was a chemical spill before Principal John Bartley made the announcement to the students.
"People were definitely happy to be let out early once we learned what had happened," said Desai. "I think it speaks a lot to the administration that they got us out quickly and safely under the circumstances."
Although students enjoyed their early dismissal, Desai said he was pretty sure that it will back to school as usual today.
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