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ECS staff realized the two residents — the woman trying to walk her dog and the 100-year-old woman found inside — were missing about the same time the deputies found them, around 9:30 a.m., the statement said.

“Successfully moving nearly 200 people, some with cognitive issues or other impairments, away from their homes in a couple of hours is cause to give thanks,” ECS’ chief executive James Rothrock said in a statement.

Diaz has retired but sits on the board of Green Schools National Network, an organization that embraces the ECS approach with other schools.

Environmental science and biology classes are mandatory for every ECS student, but the linchpin of the climate curriculum is the 10th-grade Green Ambassadors environmental advocacy class, Giles-Jones said, where students learn the basics of community organizing and advocating for change, including written and oral arguments.

A 2016 ECS graduate, Tulsi Patel returned to the Lawndale campus after college to teach the advocacy class.