search and rescue team

noun

: a group of people trained to find and help lost people

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The search and rescue team recognized the object as being similar to one that Cornejo was seen carrying out of the couple’s Lancaster apartment complex. Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Jenkins said in addition to the search and rescue team, K-9 dogs and the helicopter were used to search for Odin. Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2025 Local police told Norway's public broadcaster NRK that a volunteer search and rescue team, as well as the police, sniffer dogs and drones had renewed the search for Luhn on Tuesday before being called off due to weather conditions. Guy Davies, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2025 An errant oar and how 'hope floats' Andrew Diggs was among those who responded as part of a joint search and rescue team with TEXSAR and Heroes for Humanity to help find people who vanished in the flood. Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for search and rescue team

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