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Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighting, medical emergency, and rescue. Distinguish from a Firefight, which means a battle with firearms A medical emergency is an Injury or Illness that is acute and poses an immediate risk to a person's life or long term health Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of Life, or prevention of Injury. These disciplines include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, confined space rescue, ski rescue, cave rescue, trench/excavation rescue, and building collapse rescue, among others. Rope rescue is a subset of Technical rescue that involves the use of static Nylon Kernmantle ropes anchoring and Belaying devices friction Swiftwater Rescue (also called " whitewater rescue") is a subset of Technical rescue that involves the use of specially trained personnel Ropes Confined space rescue is a subset of Technical rescue operations that involves the rescue and recovery of victims trapped in a Confined space or in a place only accessible ski patrol is an organization that provides First aid and rescue services to skiers and participants of other snow sports either at a ski area or in a back country Cave rescue is a highly specialized field of Wilderness rescue in which injured trapped or lost Cave explorers are medically treated and extracted from various Trench rescue is a highly specialized form of Rescue, a subset of Confined space rescue. In the United States, technical rescues will often have multiple jurisdictions operating together to effect the rescue, and will often use the Incident Command System to manage the incident and resources at scene. The Incident Command System (ICS is a standardized on-scene all-hazard incident management concept in the United States.

NFPA regulation 1006 and 1670 state that all rescuers must have medical training to perform any technical rescue operation, including cutting the vehicle itself during an extrication. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA is a US organization (albeit with some international members charged with creating and maintaining minimum standards and requirements Vehicle extrication is the process of removing a person from a vehicle that has been involved in a motor vehicle accident when conventional means of exit are impossible or unadvisable Therefore, in most all rescue environments, whether it is an EMS department or fire department that runs the rescue, the actual rescuers who cut the vehicle and run the extrication scene or perform any rescue such as rope, low angle, etc, are medical first responders, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics, as almost every rescue has a patient involved. Emergency medical services (abbreviated to the initialism "EMS" in many countries are a branch of Emergency services dedicated to providing out-of-hospital A fire station (also called stationhouse) is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus (i A certified first responder is a person who has completed forty to sixty hours of training in providing prehospital care for medical emergencies. The Emergency Medical Technician ( EMT) exists in many countries and is a health care provider trained to provide prehospital emergency medical care A paramedic is a medical professional usually a member of the emergency medical service, who primarily provides Pre-hospital advanced medical and

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