I was under the impression, that if STATE and more so REGION is at code red, that group bases are meant to be manned for the taking of alerts..
Any one that can elaborate ?
That's great if you actually have people that can man/woman the station during the day. Not sure about the COSO's and SOP's, appears the link on the CFS website is broken. Will have to check at station.
if you find out somewhere where it says that, can you let me know please?
Some details are contained in the 'SA CFS Operations Management Guidlines - Third Edition' (dated: 01/11/2004, ver 2, 81 pages). I downloaded this document from the CFS website last year, so it might be updated by now.
From the way I read the document, Regional Control Centres are activated at incidents. They can also be manned at high-risk times if an 'operations support brigade' can assist. The decision rests with the Regional Duty Officer at the time.
The State Control Centre is activated as per the 'levels of prepardness' (green, yellow, orange & red).
I read this as private research into other emergency service operations procedures and I would welcome correction to the above if I have mis-read.