Photo Gallery – 2010

Ninety students from Epiphany Catholic Schools in South Miami confronted Hurricane Monica at the Miami-Dade County Office of Emergency Management on October 12, 2010. The storm, which grew to a category 3, destroyed caused severe flooding, severely damaged the local zoo and left thousands stranded, testing the students' ability to save lives and restore order. The students, working together as a team, performed superbly!

As HurrEvac computer images showed Category 3 Hurricane Michael getting closer to South Florida's coastline, Mayor Ephrain Lopez-Aguayo ordered his fellow Crystal Lake Middle School students to put out a fire in an evacuation center and relocate 1,000 residents to other evac centers in the area. "There are lives at stake, so let's get this done," he demands. Fifty students spent Wednesday morning (10/27/10) at the Broward County Emergency Operations Center. The exercise concluded with a press conference where Mayor Lopez-Aguayo was asked by student reporters if there were any lives lost. "No" he quickly responded.

Moving 100 senior citizens from a stranded nursing home to safety was one of several challenges that 50 students from Omni Middle School conducted during a hurricane simulation at the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The students faced fictitious category 3 hurricane Linda who swept through their community. Throughout the exercise, the students confronted an assortment of problems that they needed to resolve through joint effort and hard work.