Cupertino Infrastructure Safety Assessment Exercise |
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| Date: 12/15/18 | Start: 6:30 AM | End: 4:00 PM | Location: City of Cupertino |
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The City of Cupertino supports testing the community emergency response plans and ongoing disaster preparedness training as an essential component to a successful community disaster response. The one scenario we are all anticipating is a large earthquake. USGS estimates there is a 72% probability of one or more M ≥ 6.7 earthquakes from 2014 to 2043 in the San Francisco Bay Region. As a result, the City has made emergency preparedness investments that would help address the impact of such an event when it does occur.
Over the years, CARES has developed, planned, and tested a series of response activities that we believe are relevant to address the impact of a large earthquake event. What we have not done is to exercise them in an end to end scenario, that is, from the initial occurrence of the event through a 2nd shift. Such a scenario covers almost all of the operational mission elements that we have put in place to date.
The purpose of this exercise was to test the first 8 hours of a response to a large earthquake event as performed by Cupertino Citizen Corps, specifically Cupertino ARES/RACES and CERT.
The City of Cupertino authorized this exercise with training activation number CUP-18-34T. This report covers the activities undertaken by CARES and the findings from that exercise.