The Section Emergency Coordinator, in cooperation with the District Emergency Coordinators, is responsible for identifying the resources necessary to support a statewide activation of the Georgia Section ARES. The SEC or other delegated section official will work with the ARES Net Manager to identify critical operational locations to support the specific needs of a particular disaster situation and the resources needed to support net operations and other statewide communications on behalf of state agencies.
Whenever a local ARES group activates for a disaster, the county Emergency Coordinator is responsible for advising the District Emergency Coordinator of the activation and of the scale and scope of the disaster. The District EC should assess the situation to determine if adequate resources exist within the district to meet the needs of the local activation, and assess the potential for statewide impact.
The District Emergency Coordinator is responsible for advising the Section Emergency Coordinator, as well as other District EC's that could possibly have impact in their jurisdictions of the nature, size and scope of a disaster, as soon as possible after local activation.
The Section Emergency Coordinator will be responsible for assigning ARES Mutual Assistance Teams to help staff jurisdictions without sufficient resources to meet the needs of served agencies-particularly those with which the ARRL has formal memoranda of understanding for support-inside or outside of an affected area as appropriate.