How to Use search and rescue team in a Sentence

search and rescue team

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  • The pilot was able to eject and was rescued by a search and rescue team.
    — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But the search and rescue team and its resources will be much smaller.
    — Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Deputies said their search and rescue team has been looking for Weightman.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The search and rescue team swiftly made its way to the hikers, according to deputies.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Soon after, the sheriff’s office deployed a search and rescue team.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Leum said the woman asked about potentially joining the search and rescue team.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Jang's body was recovered in the river by a search and rescue team on July 7.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
  • California plans to send a search and rescue team to help support efforts on the ground in Maui.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Later on, one of the parents who was trailing behind ended up too close to the cliff’s edge and fell, the search and rescue team said.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Indiana will be sending 45 first responders from the task force as part of a search and rescue team.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Czech Republic is sending a search and rescue team, the country’s fire service said.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Before the search and rescue team arrived, Vanoy and a friend spent hours searching for le Roux themselves.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
  • An urban search and rescue team also was summoned to the site to determine whether the hillside where the cave was dug needed shoring up.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • The hikers were led down the mountain by the search and rescue team, and everyone was medically cleared, deputies said.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Over the course of an hour, a search and rescue team can collectively do hundreds of high-stakes calculations.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The search and rescue team consists entirely of volunteers and is based in Mount Carmel.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • Thankfully, there are thousands of search and rescue team members who save hundreds of lives every year, often while putting their own at risk.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Both are longtime members of a local search and rescue team that musters after accidents to help find and dig out fatal avalanche victims.
    — Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Dutch authorities deployed a specialized urban search and rescue team to the scene, with four dogs trained to find victims.
    — Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Crews were able to recover the body of the missing athlete about an hour after the first diver from the search and rescue team went into the water.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • According to the outlet, the private search and rescue team has looked through 95% of the lake with the assistance of divers and drones.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Chaffee County coroner pronounced him dead at the falls, and a search and rescue team helped bring his body back to the trailhead.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2025
  • The Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team went to help Moscow and found the dog at the base of the waterfall.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Law enforcement along with search and rescue team members responded to the area and took the person to a helicopter waiting nearby.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • With the bright red parachutes easily visible, the search and rescue team found one capsule some 24 km from main road 12.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The search and rescue team was activated that same evening, but the rescue operation was quickly stalled because of the bad weather.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On Wednesday, Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia sent a search and rescue team of around 52 people.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The man, who did not have a flashlight or headlamp, sustained only minor injuries after the park’s search and rescue team performed a high-angle rescue.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 18 June 2025
  • The rescue involved a total of 21 people, including four engines, six patrols, and one urban search and rescue team.
    — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The park’s rangers began to search for Sherwood and were later joined by multiple agencies, including the sheriff’s office and its search and rescue team.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2025

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