Emergency Service - Other Emergency Services

Other Emergency Services

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

• Military — to provide specialist services, such as bomb disposal or to supplement emergency services at times of major disaster, civil dispute or high demand.
• Coastguard — Provide coastal patrols with a security function at sea, as well as involvement in search and rescue operations
• Lifeboat — Dedicated providers of rescue lifeboat services, usually at sea (such as by the RNLI in the United Kingdom).
• Mountain rescue — to provide search and rescue in mountainous areas, and sometimes in other wilderness environments.
• Cave rescue — to rescue people injured, trapped, or lost during caving explorations.
• Mine rescue — specially trained and equipped to rescue miners trapped by fires, explosions, cave-ins, toxic gas, flooding, etc.
• Technical rescue — other types of technical or heavy rescue, but usually specific to a discipline (such as swift water).
• Search and rescue — can be discipline-specific, such as urban, wildland, maritime, etc.
• Wildland fire suppression — to suppress, detect and control fires in forests and other wildland areas.
• Bomb disposal — to render safe hazardous explosive ordnance, such as terrorist devices or unexploded wartime bombs.
• Blood/organ transplant supply — to provide organs or blood on an emergency basis, such as the National Blood Service of the United Kingdom.
• Emergency management — to provide and coordinate resources during large-scale emergencies.
• Amateur radio emergency communications — to provide communications support to other emergency services, such as RAYNET in the UK
• Hazmat — removal of hazardous materials
• Air search providing aerial spotting for the emergency services, such as conducted by the Civil Air Patrol in the US, or Sky Watch in the UK.