By Town Crier Staff

Montecito preschoolers Savannah Briggerman and Michael Byun are led down Grant Road last Tuesday during an evacuation drill.

Children and teachers at Montecito School at 1468 Grant Road spent two weeks in October learning a simple but vital routine to use in case of emergency.

On the final morning of training, Oct. 21, Officer Ron Verna helped a class of two- and three-year-olds practice taking the handholds on the long rope that their teachers will use to guide them to Marymeade Park on Fremont Ave. - and to make sure they all get there.

The children will walk on the inside of the rope, away from the road.

Class-by-class drills, coordinated and led by the Los Altos Police Department, prepared everyone for a practice evacuation of the entire campus that will take place in November.

Parents will participate in that drill by meeting their children at the park, just as they will in a real emergency.