School on Washington coast building up for tsunami

OCOSTA, Wash. (AP) - The Ocosta School District will release plans Thursday for what it calls the nation’s first vertical-evacuation structure.

A new elementary school will be designed and built with upper-level space where children could flee in the event a tsunami hits the Washington coast.

Chuck Wallace with the Grays Harbor County Emergency Management Agency told KBKW (https://bit.ly/1sEvSYf ) it will be the first such structure in the country.

Ocosta is on Grays Harbor near Westport, about 100 miles southwest of Seattle.

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Information from: KBKW-AM, https://kbkw.com