# Rescuer

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{{Short description|Person who rescues something from harm or danger}}
{{other uses|Rescuers (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox Occupation
| name= Rescuer
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| caption= Japanese [JMSDF](/source/JMSDF) Rescue diver.
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| type= [Employment](/source/Employment), [Recruit Training](/source/Recruit_Training), [Volunteer](/source/Volunteering)
| activity_sector=  [Rescue](/source/Rescue), [Fire Department](/source/Fire_Department), [law enforcement](/source/Law_enforcement_agency), [Coast Guard](/source/Coast_Guard), [Military](/source/Military)
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| related_occupation= [Firefighter](/source/Firefighter), [Aid worker](/source/Aid_worker), [Ranger](/source/Park_ranger), [Diver](/source/Underwater_diving)
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A '''rescuer''' is a person who saves something from harm or danger. They are trained in some combination of [technical rescue](/source/technical_rescue), [diver rescue](/source/diver_rescue), [mountain rescue](/source/mountain_rescue), [extrication](/source/extrication) rescue, and advanced [firefighting](/source/firefighting). The term is commonly used with people who are doing a rescue and in some careers use "Rescuer" as the job title.

The main job of a rescuer is to save lives in a dangerous environment.

== Types ==
=== Fire department ===
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A rescuer in a fire department is very different between western and eastern cultures.
* North American departments have their rescuers mix within normal fire fighters. They share the same equipment and are appointed{{clarify|reason=garbled grammar|date=August 2022}} as the leader during a rescue mission. Rescuers have classroom and field training with senior rescue members. Only time when a groups of rescuers are in teams are during water rescue, air rescue, [mountain rescue](/source/mountain_rescue), or a major disaster.
* Asian departments form special units of rescuers. These rescuers have their own equipment, apparatuses, or even their own fire houses. They would have served as a firefighter before they have training to be a rescuer. Training is like a [recruit training](/source/recruit_training) and the trainees maybe asked to quit if their performance does not meet certain standards. After passing training they are sent to a Rescue Unit and given extra training within that unit.

===Military===
A rescuer in the [military](/source/military) is a [soldier](/source/soldier) or [sailor](/source/sailor) who has extra training in diver rescue, mountain rescue, or in extrication. Commonly these rescuers are known from [Coast Guard](/source/Coast_Guard) service, where they are seen saving people during a dangerous encounter. A normal military rescuer's duty is to save another military personnel during combat or normal operations.

==See also==
*[Rescue](/source/Rescue)
*[Search and rescue](/source/Search_and_rescue)
*[Rescue Diver](/source/Rescue_Diver)
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