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In the United States, community emergency response team ( CERT) can refer to. an organization of volunteer emergency workers who have received specific training in basic disaster response skills, and who agree to supplement existing emergency responders in the event of a major disaster. Sometimes programs and organizations take different names ...
Arlington County Fire Department is a career fire department, with over 380 sworn career Fire personnel and numerous support employees. All units are staffed 24 hours a day by career firefighter/EMTs who are divided into three platoons. [1] Engine Companies,Rescue Companies and Truck Companies/Tower companies in Arlington are typically staffed ...
ZAKA ( Hebrew: זק"א, abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, זיהוי קרבנות אסון , lit. 'Disaster Victim Identification') is a series of voluntary community emergency response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). They are recognized by the Israeli ...
Incident response team. An incident response team ( IRT) or emergency response team ( ERT) is a group of people who prepare for and respond to an emergency, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations. Incident response teams are common in public service organizations as well as in other organizations, either military ...
ERTSAR is a UK national DEFRA Flood Response Team with a specialist rescue boat crew available to respond to any area of the country needing assistance in response to flooding incidents. Both the UK and Canadian teams are also available to be called out by the police in response to high-risk despondent missing person searches, utilising man ...
The name "Computer Emergency Response Team" was first used in 1988 by the CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The term CERT is registered as a trade and service mark by CMU in multiple countries worldwide. CMU encourages the use of Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) as a generic term for the ...
Emergency response officers (EROs) are people who are trained to be the first line of response in any emergency situation. The primary role played by EROs are to check out any reported incident locally and assess the situation. If deemed appropriate the professional emergency services like the police, ambulance and/or fire brigade will be called up and the EROs will facilitate the access of ...
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