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7-year-old girl who survived Oklahoma tornado tells others how to prepare

Ashley May
USA TODAY
Aria Baird, second from the right, records 'The Prep Step' with her classmates.

A girl saved from a Oklahoma tornado three years ago recently released a song with classmates about how to prepare for natural disasters.

Aria Baird, now 7, was saved from a deadly tornado that struck her Moore, Okla., day care in May 2013. Aria's teacher, Cathy Wilson, caught the girl's leg before she was swept up.

The tornado killed nine children and 15 adults that day.

This summer, Aria, her classmates and other Oklahoma survivors produced a disaster-preparedness song, The Prep Step. Children in a rural school near the San Andreas fault in California turned the song into a music video.

The song's three verses touch on Save the Children's three steps to follow for emergency prep:

1. Make ICE [In-Case-of-Emergency] contact cards

2. Make an emergency plan and practice it as a family

3. Gather disaster supplies and make go-bags for each child

More than a dozen organizations, including FEMA Youth Preparedness Council and Youth Service America, are actively sharing the video.

For more information on The Prep Step, visit www.SavetheChildren.org/PrepStep.

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