first responder
noun
: a person (such as a police officer or an EMT) who is among those responsible for going immediately to the scene of an accident or emergency to provide assistance
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Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 5 Aug. 2025
Roberts will be joined by survivors, first responders, and others who witnessed the devastation with their personal memories.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Other first responders, including Jeffersontown Fire, were eventually able to remove him from the vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
Cathedral City, the town next to Palm Springs, is cooperating with Palm Springs, installing a drone dock there and adding five to six square miles of operational airspace to the UAS as a first responder program.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
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Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 5 Aug. 2025
Roberts will be joined by survivors, first responders, and others who witnessed the devastation with their personal memories.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Other first responders, including Jeffersontown Fire, were eventually able to remove him from the vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
Cathedral City, the town next to Palm Springs, is cooperating with Palm Springs, installing a drone dock there and adding five to six square miles of operational airspace to the UAS as a first responder program.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
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“First responder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20responder. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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