response team
Emergency action group
A response team is a group organized to act quickly when specific situations arise.
Emergency response teams handle disasters or crises; incident response teams address security breaches or system failures.
The term implies readiness and coordinated action: The response team was on site within minutes of the alarm.
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- emergency servicesUrgent public safety organizations
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
dispatch · rapid deployment · first responders · first on scene · SWAT · active shooter · paramedics · incident · tactical · mobilize · coordination · sirens · command · deploy · hazmat · search · disaster · disaster relief
- teamssquad, varsity, ensembles, crews, squads
- emergencies911, ambulance, emergency, emergency room, ER
- oil spillsoil spill, oil spills, oil slick, tar balls, oil boom
- prison staffprison guard, correctional officer, corrections officer, guard, warden
- SWATSWAT, ballistic shield, battering ram, flash grenade, breaching
- Incident Responseincident report, escalation, alert, notification, detection
response teambystanders
People present but uninvolved
onlookers · spectators · rubberneckers · gawkers · non-responders
response, team, respond, responsive, responsively, responsiveness, responses, respondent, respondents