Emergency services are public services that deal with emergencies and other aspects of Public Safety. An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Depending on the country, and the terms used, emergency services include many of the below:

• the fire service and firefighters
• for mass emergencies, community emergency response teams
• the emergency medical service
• the ambulance services including paramedics / emergency medical technicians
• the police
• park rangers
• emergency operations, often managed by the fire service.

Specialized emergency services include: Firefighter in full turn out gear with a pickhead axe. ... A community emergency response team (CERT) is a group of amateur emergency workers. ... Emergency medical service (known by the acronym of EMS in the USA and Canada) is a branch of medicine that is performed in the field, pre-hospital, (i. ... Ambulance An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... An emergency medical technician (EMT) is an emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services (EMS) to the critically ill and injured. ... A Park Ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving parkland, forests (then called Forest Rangers), wilderness areas other natural resouces. ... Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ...

• maritime search and rescue services such as the local coastguard, lifeboat or surf lifesavers.
• mountain rescue teams
• mine rescue teams
• bomb disposal teams
• earthquake rescue teams, also known as urban search and rescue teams or heavy rescue teams
• famine relief teams

Mass emergencies such as floods, earthquakes, snowstorms, tornados and hurricanes overload professional emergency services. Consider the math: A community of 100,000 typically will have about ten fire trucks. Many jurisdictions do not cross-train police as light rescue personnel. If the emergency traps or injures just 2% of the population, 2,000 rescues will be needed. Since each rescue takes about a half hour, and there are ten trucks, the rescues will take about 100 hours to complete. People in shock will begin to die within two hours. Trapped children will begin to die of thirst in one day, trapped adults and shut-ins in two days. As many as 1500 deaths might be prevented by simple rescue and first-aid, if it were only available quickly. 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 (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea... A coast guard is an organization devoted to saving the lives of shipwrecked mariners or people in danger at sea. ... For the 1944 movie, see Lifeboat (movie). ... Surf lifesaving is a multifaceted movement that comprises key aspects of voluntary beach patrols and competitive surf sport. ... Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is often also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments. ... Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous devices are rendered safe. ... Origins Charity work to aid the starving has developed from religious alms in previous centuries to organised charities in the modern day. ... Look up Flood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... Tornado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article is about weather phenomena. ... In medicine, shock (hypoperfusion) is a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by inability of the body to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements. ...

• Some regions therefore perform mass training of amateurs to cope with mass emergencies, in a program called community emergency response teams.
• In mass emergencies, coordination is crucial. This is usually provided by some form of emergency operations.
• The military can sometimes help in mass emergencies, although they can rarely mobilize quickly enough to make a significant difference, and often have incompatible doctrines.

Emergency responders are persons who respond to a call for help to an emergency telephone number. Typically they are sent by a emergency dispatch center. Many countries have special emergency numbers, such as 911 in North America, 999 in Britain or 000 in Australia. Due to the increase in international travel and mobile phones capable of operating in different countries, an international emergency GSM mobile telephone number 112 has been agreed upon. This works in all GSM mobiles and on landline phones in European Union countries, ex Soviet Union countries, some mobile networks in the United States and many other countries. In most cases the existing national number(s) also works. A community emergency response team (CERT) is a group of amateur emergency workers. ... Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ... Call for help - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 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. ... A dispatch can be: A report sent to a newspaper by a correspondent. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... The telephone number 1-1-2 (or 112) is the international emergency telephone number for GSM mobile phone networks. ...

Generally, emergency services are provided through PSTN. Now, there are some research going on for providing emergency services through VoIP, check this link for more details http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ecrit-charter.html

In most jurisdictions, emergency responders are immune from tort liability for acts occurring within the scope of their employment. Such immunity frees them from worrying that their efforts to rescue an injured person will expose them to a lawsuit if the rescue goes badly. However, emergency responders are also considered to have a duty to rescue, and may be held liable for failing to act altogether when presented with a person in need of aid. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy. ... A duty to rescue is a concept in the law of torts that arises in a narrow number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril. ...

See also

• Emergency telephone number for more about 911, and other numbers such as 112.
• Emergency medical service
• Disaster relief
• Civil defense
• Public Safety
• Tow truck
• Common Alerting Protocol