Students from a middle and elementary school in Auburn participated in its first-ever flood drill Wednesday to prepare for the possibility of the Green River spilling over its banks.

The 1,500 students Dick Scobee Elementary and Cascade Middle Schools were escorted out of class.

The two schools are the closest to the flood-threatened river.

Officials wanted to prepare for the possibility of students needing to quickly evacuate.

"For our school district, we have two schools that would be possible flood sites should we have a levy breech. So the drill today was to practice how long it took to evacuate each school, and to reassemble students to higher ground," said Gordon O'Dell with Auburn Schools.

And while students took it as somewhat of a pre-Thanksgiving field trip, the school district has been planning the evacuation drill for weeks.

At Cascade Middle School, the principal said his teachers have even been integrating the subject of flooding into the lesson plans.