How to Use search and rescue team in a Sentence

search and rescue team

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  • According to the outlet, the private search and rescue team has looked through 95% of the lake with the assistance of divers and drones.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • California plans to send a search and rescue team to help support efforts on the ground in Maui.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Indiana will be sending 45 first responders from the task force as part of a search and rescue team.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2024
  • On Wednesday, Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia sent a search and rescue team of around 52 people.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Crews were able to recover the body of the missing athlete about an hour after the first diver from the search and rescue team went into the water.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • An urban search and rescue team also was summoned to the site to determine whether the hillside where the cave was dug needed shoring up.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • The hikers were led down the mountain by the search and rescue team, and everyone was medically cleared, deputies said.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Undersheriff Curtis Childs said the search and rescue team was dispatched to the lake at about 1:40 p.m.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
  • With the bright red parachutes easily visible, the search and rescue team found one capsule some 24 km from main road 12.
    Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Thirteen members of the search and rescue team arrived at the Santa Paula Canyon trailhead at around 8:30 p.m. local time, the sheriff's office said.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 May 2023
  • Both are longtime members of a local search and rescue team that musters after accidents to help find and dig out fatal avalanche victims.
    Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The organization’s staff alerted park rangers, who sent out a search and rescue team, the National Park Service said in a news release.
    Marlon Sorto, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Members of the sheriff’s office search and rescue team, dive team, boating safety unit and other agencies responded to the scene to aid in the recovery of the two children.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The long rescue mission saw the search and rescue team return to its base in Bishop hours later, finally signing out at 4 a.m. local time.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Law enforcement along with search and rescue team members responded to the area and took the person to a helicopter waiting nearby.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The two agencies often assist each other and, unlike the police department, the Sheriff’s Office has a search and rescue team.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 16 July 2024
  • The explosion left unconscious many people who needed to be carried out of the shop, according to the online news site The Paper, which quoted a member of the search and rescue team.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 June 2023
  • Her husband, who also left his IT job two years ago, spends his time weight lifting, volunteering with the local search and rescue team, and fostering dogs.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The rescue involved a total of 21 people, including four engines, six patrols, and one urban search and rescue team.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Sonoma County’s search and rescue team deployed more than 50 volunteers from seven counties who searched on foot and with canines; the team also had drone flights mapping the area.
    Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • By late Monday morning, the search teams' diligence had paid off, and Keshava was discovered after a member of the search and rescue team spotted the 78-year-old on a south-facing aspect of Grouse Mountain.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Additional body parts are still missing, and Sammarco has given approval for a search and rescue team to continue combing the area on Friday.
    The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The park said its response involved more than 20 search and rescue team members, including emergency medical technicians and paramedics, and the park ambulance.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The search and rescue team recommends that hikers and campers always bring essentials including navigation, light sources, first aid supplies, food, water and a smartphone.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • An urban search and rescue team from nearby Cedar Rapids is at the site, transitioning from rescue to recovery mode, authorities said at a Friday morning news conference.
    Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • However, as the parents were receiving medical care before being transported, a hiker who was passing by informed the search and rescue team that a third person, later identified as Belyruth, was lying unconscious a short distance away.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024

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