Alert state

An alert can be classified into a safety- valued mostly military mechanism. So have many militaries alarm levels or levels of security that can be changed depending on the threat level. This classification can apply to an entire country or specific regions, but often also individual objects ( mostly ships ) own alert levels.

The classification of alert levels is mostly with the help of numbers, but often colors instead. In the U.S. military alert levels are referred to as Defense Condition DEFCON or.

Alarm levels are also elements of a so-called " alarm and response regulations "

Alarm levels at the Fire Department

The following alarm levels can be applied and will be sent by the alert system to emergency personnel for firefighting:

It must be noted that the above alert levels is mainly found in fire departments that use the alert system "BASIC", and therefore not be used in all states and / or counties. A widely used alternative is the alarm directly by keyword (eg small fire, room fire, building fire ... ) without defining an alert.

Alarm levels of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The following levels of alarm system ( Homeland Security Advisory System ) comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and shows the threat level of terrorism in the United States.

Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, a total of seven times was called the Orange Alert.

While the possible attack on British airports was during the British anti-terrorist action of 10 August 2006 through Red Alert On 14 August 2006, the classification of critical ( increase of "serious level" ) was reduced to serious stage.

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