[caption id="attachment_11157" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students work to mitigate flooding outside the Glendale Community College Aviation Building (photo via Todd Jennings)"]

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Cadets at Glendale Community College's Verdugo Fire Academy had a surprise lesson change when they came to class Saturday.
They dropped everything to clean up water damage around the college's Aviation building.
Students spent all day cleaning up from the flooding while preparing for more flooding and channeling the current overflow elsewhere.
All told, the measures saved thousands of dollars in mitigation and restoration costs, instructors said.