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Underground school shelters Artesia kids from blast
In Artesia New Mexico Abo Elementary operates as the nations only underground school with 18 classrooms 13 feet below surface on a 21 inch steel concrete roof. It includes two basketball courts hop scotch benches and 2000 capacity shelter. Civil Defense funded most of the 468623 project. The facility features food water well emergency power 319 horsepower diesel and an emergency shower to wash radioactivity after a blast.
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Bernard Ross