: a group of people trained to find and help lost people
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Seven members of the sheriff's office search and rescue team embarked on a hike to find the hikers, which took about an hour and a half inbound.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
28 Sep. 2026 The fire department’s search and rescue team cut part of a car door away to rescue Rios while her SUV was still lodged in the bus, Silverman recounted.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2026 With night approaching, rescuers determined that the climber could not safely remain on the ledge until morning, according to the search and rescue team.—
Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
1 Sep. 2026 As blizzard conditions increasingly worsened, the search and rescue team laid the bodies together and covered them with a tarp, marking the spot with GPS coordinates and long poles used to probe for people buried under avalanches.—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
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