Cupertino Wildland Fire threat Exercise |
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| Date: 05/12/18 | Start: 7:00 AM | End: 1:00 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. One area that has not received a lot of attention is with the threat of Wildland Urban Interface Fire. We recognized that California experienced an incredibly tough WUI fire season last year, and that such a risk is real for us given that Cupertino sits up against foothills that have not burned in over 100 years.
With this as context, CARES developed, planned, and tested a response for how we would possibly observe and report adverse conditions to the EOC that would be caused by a wildland fire threat.
The purpose of this exercise was to test the field response to a wildland fire threat as performed by Cupertino Citizen Corps ,specifically Cupertino ARES/RACES and CERT.
The City of Cupertino authorized this exercise with training activation number CUP-18-35T. This report covers the activities undertaken by CARES and the findings from that exercise.