Use of specialised personnel and equipment to locate persons in distress or in danger and remove them from a place of actual or potential danger to a place of relative safety
Cabinet Office, Lexicon of UK Civil Protection: A developing single point of reference for UK Civil Protection Terminology - Version 2.0.1, Emergency Responder Interoperability Lexicon, London, UK 2011. http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cplexicon, (Emr Mgt - Brit) {545}