search team
Missing person squad
A search team is a group organized to look for someone or something missing or lost.
Search teams hunt for survivors after disasters, locate missing hikers, or comb through evidence in investigations.
The term emphasizes coordinated effort: The search team fanned out across the mountainside.
- rescueSave from harm
- manhuntSearch for a suspect
- trackerOne who follows trails
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- last seenMost recent observation
volunteer · helicopter · canine · K-9 unit · grid · grid pattern · sweep · survivor · wilderness · ranger · flashlight · whistle · coordinates · command post · debris · cadaver · lost · call off
- aviation disastersplane crash, air crash, midair collision, crash landing, crash site
- Police Unitspatrol unit, SWAT, homicide unit, detective unit, narcotics unit
- rescuerescue, rescue dog, save, help, SAR
- forest rangersforest ranger, park ranger, ranger, fire warden, game warden
- Rescuersfirefighter, paramedic, EMT, lifeguard, first aider
- mounted unitsmounted police, cavalry, ceremonial guard, outrider