Emergency Service

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Emergency services are organisations that that ensure public safety by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal responsibilities. Many agencies will engage in community awareness and prevention programs to help the public avoid, detect, and report emergencies effectively.

The availability of emergency services depends very heavily on location, and in some cases also depends on the recipients ability to and may in some cases also rely on the recipient giving payment or holding suitable insurance or other surety for receiving the service.

Core Emergency Services

There are three services which are almost universally acknowledged as being core to the provision of emergency care to the populous, and are often government run. They would generally be summoned on a dedicated emergency telephone number, reserved for critical emergency calls. They are:

Police - Providing community safety and acting to reduce crime against persons and property
Fire service - Providing firefighters to deal with fire and rescue operations, and may also deal with some secondary emergency service duties
Emergency Medical Service - Providing ambulances and staff to deal with medical emergencies

Secondary Emergency Services

These services can be provided by one of the core services or by a separate government or private body.

Coastguard - Such as that as of the RNLI in the United Kingdom.
Mountain rescue - To provide specific rescue services in these areas
Cave Rescue - To rescue people from Caves.
Mine rescue - Specially trained and equipped for confined space rescue
Technical rescue - Other types of technical or heavy rescue, but usually specific to a discipline (such as swift water)
Search & rescue - also can be discipline-specific, such as urban, wildland, maritime, etc.
Bomb disposal - provide support for bombs and usually other ordnance, such as unexploded wartime bombs
Blood/organ transplant supply - Organisations who provide organs or blood on an emergency basis, such as the National Blood Service of the United Kingdom
Emergency management - provides and coordinates resources during large-scale emergencies
Amateur radio emergency communications - Provide communications support to other emergency services

Civil Emergency Services

These groups and organisations respond to emergencies and provide other safety-related services either as a part of their on-the-job duties, as part of the main mission of their business or concern, or as part of their hobbies.

Public utilities - Safeguarding Gas, Electricity and Water, which are all potentially hazardous if infrastructure fails
Emergency road service - provide repair or recovery for disabled or crashed vehicles
Emergency social services
Community emergency response teams - help organize facilities such as rest centers during large emergencies
Disaster Relief - such as services provided by the Red Cross and Salvation Army
Famine relief teams
Amateur radio communications groups - provide communications support during emergencies
Poison Control - Providing specialist support for poisoning
Animal Control - can assist or lead response to emergencies involving animals
Wildlife Services

Location-Specific Emergency Services

Some locations have emergency services dedicated to them, and whilst this does not necessarily preclude employees using their skills outside this area (or be used to support other emergency services outside their area), they are primarily focused on the safety or security of a given geographical place.

Park Rangers - Looking after many emergencies within their given area, including fire, medical and security issues
Lifeguards - Charged with reacting to emergencies within their own given remit area, usually a pool, beach or open water area

Working together

Effective emergency service management requires agencies from many different services to work closely together and to have open lines of communication. Most services do, or should, have procedures and liaisons in place to ensure this, although absence of these can be severely detrimental to good working. There can sometimes be tension between services for a number of other reasons, including professional versus voluntary crew members, or simply based on area or division.

To aid effective communications, different services may share common practices and protocol for certain large-scale emergencies. In the UK, commonly used shared protocols include CHALET and ETHANE while in the US, the Department of Homeland Security has called for nationwide implementation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), of which the Incident Command System (ICS) is a part.

Many countries' public telephone networks have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance.
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Police are agents or agencies empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimate use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a
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firefighter (also called a fireman or firewoman, although these terms have gone out of use in many countries) is trained and equipped to extinguish fires. Increasingly a firefighter is also a rescuer, trained and equipped to rescue people from car accidents, collapsed
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An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency.
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ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people,^[1]to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital and when appropriate, to
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A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries.
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Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments.
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Cave Rescue is a highly specialized field of wilderness rescue in which injured, trapped or lost caving explorers are medically treated and extracted from various cave environments.
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Mine rescue is the specialized job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in mines. All mines are hazardous, but coalmines especially so because of the presence of combustible substances: coal and gas.
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Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighting, medical emergency, and rescue.
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Search and rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest ("
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Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. "Bomb disposal" is an all encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the following fields:

military – Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

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The National Blood Service is the organisation for England and North Wales which collects blood and other tissues, tests, processes, and supplies all the hospitals in England and North Wales.
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" ^[2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" ^[3]
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Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks.^[1] It is a discipline that involves preparing, supporting, and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur.
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Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (AREC), formerly the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps, is a service provided by the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) which provides trained radio communicators and communication systems for emergency
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A public utility (usually just utility in British English) is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).
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Breakdown cover is a form of insurance policy that provides assistance to motorists whose vehicles have suffered a mechanical failure that is significant enough to leave them stranded at their present location.
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Emergency Social Services (ESS) is a component of the Provincial Emergency Program of the Province of British Columbia. ESS are those services required to preserve the well-being of people affected by an emergency or disaster.
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CERT

Shoulder Patch of CERT
Program Offered Nationally: 1993
Offered In: 50 States

In the United States a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), sometimes known as a Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), or
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement French: Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, is an international humanitarian movement whose stated mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure
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The Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian charity and church that is internally organized like a military service. Its founders William and Catherine Booth sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor, destitute and hungry by meeting both their physical and spiritual needs.
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A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by starvation becomes increasingly common. In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still strikes many
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Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service that uses various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training.
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A poison control center (PCC) or poison information center (PIC) is a medical facility that is able to provide immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and assistance over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous, or hazardous substances.
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An animal control officer may be an employee of a municipality, is an employee of, or a contractor to, a municipality, is charged with the responsibility of responding to calls for service ranging from stray animals to investigations of animal cruelty and dogfighting, and bringing
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A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas, as well as other natural resources and protected cultural resources.
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