volunteer brigade
Civilian emergency team
A volunteer brigade is an organized group of unpaid individuals who come together for a common purpose, typically emergency response or community service.
Fire departments in rural areas often operate as volunteer brigades: The volunteer brigade responded to the barn fire within minutes.
The term extends to any coordinated group of volunteers working toward a shared goal.
- firefighterEmergency blaze responder
- first respondersPersonnel arriving at emergencies initially
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- communityCollective of connected people
community service · service · duty · call to action · helmet · siren · emergency · fire station · civic · local · corps · squad · team · station · response · selfless · aid · mobilize
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- Militiascitizen militia, colonial militia, colonial militias, territorial defense, citizen army
- brigades
volunteer brigadestanding army
Continuously maintained military force
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