rescue operation
Emergency retrieval effort
A rescue operation is an organized effort to save people from danger—after disasters, accidents, or kidnappings.
The term implies coordination and urgency: Search and rescue operations continued through the night.
Military rescue operations retrieve hostages or personnel from hostile territory.
The phrase sometimes appears in softer contexts: The whole vacation became a rescue operation after the car broke down.
- first aidInitial injury treatment
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- sonar equipmentSound-based underwater detection system
- emergency communicationUrgent contact during crisis
aerial surveillance · thermal imaging · rapid deployment · command center · distress signal · emergency beacon · K-9 unit · hazard assessment · medical transport · underwater diving · paramedic · emergency responders · crisis management · rappelling · emergency · narrow escape · helicopter · lifeboat
- sea rescuelifeboat, lifeguard, coastguard, SOS, life raft
- military interventioninvasion, military intervention, coalition forces, allied forces, ground forces
- Mining Hazardscave-in, collapse, explosion, methane, gas explosion
- water emergenciesdrowning, near drowning, near-drowning, pool drowning, bathtub drowning
- maritime accidentsship collision, ramming, broadsiding, sideswipe, side swipe
- strandingswhale stranding, beaching
rescue operationabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
desertion · leaving behind · leaving for dead · forsaking · neglect