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Cupertino hears briefing on emergency operations center readiness
Summary
Interim emergency-management consultant Jim Frawley and community coordinator Ken briefed the council on when the city would activate its Emergency Operations Center, the EOC’s organization and the role of resident volunteers in preparedness.
Jim Frawley, the city’s interim emergency management consultant, told the Cupertino City Council on Nov. 18 that the city activates its Emergency Operations Center when “a situation gets large enough,” explaining that activation levels range from monitoring to full community support for incidents such as major earthquakes or large fires.
Frawley described three activation levels and said the city manager (designated as director of emergency services under local ordinance) or their designee…
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