The City of Cupertino will be conducting an emergency drill on Oct 17 / 18.  The goal of the drill is for city's emergency volunteers to make contact with all the households in Cupertino to simulate a citywide earthquake damage assessment. The City of Cupertino has approximately 21,000 households, and it is a challenge to make contacts with the households within a two day - 16 hour - time period. 

   City's Emergency Service will activate city volunteers from the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Cupertino Amateur Radio Emergency Service (CARES), Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and Animal Care.  In addition, the city invites community organizations such as the Neighborhood Block Leaders, Boy and Girl Scout troops, CSF, Key, Interact, and Octagon members to participate in this emergency drill in partnership with city's CERT / CARES / MRC volunteers to accomplish their goal.
 
   During the drill, volunteers will hand out an information sheet explaining free emergency preparedness classes and an invitation to visit their closest Emergency Information and Resource ARK to become familiar with it’s function and location. For additional information, please contact Cupertino city Emergency Manager:  Marsha Hovey, 408-777-3335, oes@cupertino.org or Emergency Volunteer Coordinator:  Ken Ericksen, 408-777-3176, cert@cupertino.org

 *** All volunteers must bring photo ID, such as CERT/CARES/MRC, or Block Leader, or  High School ID, or wear affiliated organization's uniform, such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Rotary, Octagon, Interact...etc  ***

  Cupertino市將在10月17/18舉辦一個緊急演習。 演習的目標是為市政府的緊急志願者實習在緊急時與所有的家庭聯繫和演習全市的地震損傷情况估計。 Cupertino市大约有兩萬一千個家庭，演習的極大挑戰將在兩天的十六個小時的時期内與全市的所有家庭聯繫。 

  Cupertino市政府的公共緊急情况服務隊將動員緊急志願響應團(CERT)，非職業無線電緊急情况服務團(CARES)，醫療儲備團(MRC)和動物護養團的城市志願者。  另外，市政府邀請社區组織例如鄰里領導者、男孩和女孩童子軍隊伍、扶輪國際社，扶輪社分社的INTERACT 、和高中 CSF, KEY, OCTAGON社的成員参加這個緊急演習與市政府的 CERT/CARES/MRC 志願團合作實現市政府的演習目標。 

  在演習時，Cupertino市政府的緊急志願者將為所有聯繫的家庭提供一份簡單資料解釋市政府提供的免費緊急準備課程，並且邀請參觀離他們家最接近的緊急資訊和資源中心(ARK)， 借此熟悉它是們作用和地點。如果需要其它信息資料 ，請與 Cupertino市政府緊急服務隊經理聯繫：  Marsha Hovey， 408-777-3335，oes@cupertino.org或者市政府緊急志願協調員： Ken Ericksen， 408-777-3176，cert@cupertino.org