Cupertino ARES/RACES

Exercises

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CUP-26-29T, Winter Storm Comm Outage

21 Feb 2026. This exercise addresses how CARES and CERT would deal with problems from a power and communications outage that occurs throughout the city. The key objective is to pass simulated 9-1-1 reports from the field to the EOC and then to County Comm.
Explan | Forms Refresher | 911 Form | IAP* | Drill Prep | Voice Injects | Packet Injects | After Action Report | AAR Review | Event Pictures |

CUP-25-31T, SNF Communications Exercise

17 May 2025. This exercise addresses how we would execute the field reporting portion of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Status reporting as required by Santa Clara County Public Health Department.
Explan v1.5 | Surge Overview | Drill Prep | IAP* | Voice Injects | Packet Injects | Packet Msgs | SCC Injects | After Action Report |

CUP-24-18T, CCC Exercise / WSA Assessment

19 Oct 2024. This is a Cupertino Citizen Corps exercise with CARES focusing on the Windshield Survey Area (City ISA) Assessment process.
Explan | Drill Prep | WSA Process | Map Book | After Action Report |

CUP-24-0224T, SCC RACES Quarterly Exercise

24 Feb 2024. CARES will use this event as an opportunity to pull out Comm 469 and pass voice and packet messages to the County EOC. No field deployment is planned.
MSEL | After Action Report |

CUP-24-39T, Extreme Wind Event Message Passing

27 Jan 2024. Using the March 2023 Extreme Wind Event as the scenario, this exercise focused on passing field or damage observations on simulated problems observed in our neighborhoods.

CUP-23-24T, ISA Communications Exercise - 2023

18 Nov 2023. This exercise is to test existing and new Cupertino ARES tools and procedures for the Infrastructure Safety Assessment (ISA)
Exercise Plan | IAP* | Drill Prep* | Event Signup | After Action Report |

CUP-23-35T, Winter Comm Outage

18 Feb 2023. POSTPONED -- Simulated Winter storms have caused spotty outages. The next storm is expected to cause wide-spread power outages resulting in extended planned power shutdowns.

CUP-22-39T, Canyon Trails Fire Evacuation

21 May 2022. Support an evacuation of westend residents caused by a wildland fire.
Exercise Plan | Drill Prep | Drill Prep, CERT | Drill Prep, Recording | IAP* | Injects | After Action Report | Retrospective |

CUP-22-0323T, City of Cupertino OEM Tabletop Exercise

23 Mar 2022. This exercise is a City drill, planned for two hours in the City of Cupertino and facilitated virtually via MS TEAMS. Virtual exercise play is limited to City boundaries.
After Action Report |

CUP-22-10T, GMRS ARK-to-EOC Test

12 Mar 2022. Perform an ARK to Comm 469 GMRS radio test on GMRS simplex and a repeater channel.
Test Plan | After Action Report |

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Upcoming Activities

1 Oct 2026, General Meeting
Applied Packet & Node Hopping, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00   

5 Nov 2026, General Meeting
Topic TBD, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00   

3 Dec 2026, General Meeting
2026 Year-end Review, St Jude Parish Hall,19:30 to 21:00