Members of the Tracy Community Emergency Response Team and the Poet Christian School Parent Teacher Association joined forces to assemble emergency kits for the school this week.

Kelli Goble, a member of the CERT team, spearheaded the drive after the school was placed on lockdown two years ago when a suspect in a stolen-car chase ran near the campus. Goble later found out the classrooms had no emergency supplies in case of a lockdown, and she looked into making kits for every room in the school where students might be.

After two years of raising money and collecting donations from area businesses, she had $3,000 in supplies to assemble for each room.

Volunteers from the school, Tracy fire and police departments, and the CERT team put together the kits, which include a classroom bucket with a first-aid kit, glow-stick lanyards, duct tape and emergency blankets, as well as a teacher backpack with flashlights and batteries, a safety vest, work gloves and dust masks. Granola bars and water were also included, in case students are locked in classrooms for an extended time.

Forty-three buckets and backpacks filled with supplies were distributed throughout the school.

Organizers hope other schools throughout the district will create similar emergency classroom supplies.