Canine Recovery Team (Cadaver Dog Team; K-9 Recovery
Team)
Team provides highly trained air scent recovery dog teams
for search and recovery operations for deceased victims.
Canine Search Team (Search Dog Team; Dog Rescue
Team; K-9 Rescue Team)
Team
provides highly trained search dog teams for search
and rescue operations for living and deceased victims
in a variety of environments. Teams can be broken into three capabilities: air
scent (primary), tracking/trailing, and disaster
dogs.
Cave Search and Rescue Team (Technical
Rescue Team)
Team performs
search and rescue services to locate and remove injured,
lost, or deceases individuals from caves and caverns. Team
members work in totally dark environments that may
include vertical drops, narrow or small spaces, boulder
fields and scree slopes, cold, and water hazards.
Chemical/Biological (C/B) Protective Ensemble
A compliant vapor-protective ensemble that is also certified
as being compliant with the additional requirements for
protection against C/B warfare agents such as vapors, gases,
liquids, and particulate. (National Fire Protection Association [NFPA]
Standard # 1991)
Chemical Warfare Agent
A chemical substance (such as a nerve agent, blister agent,
blood agent, choking agent, or irritating agent) used to
kill, seriously injure, or incapacitate people through
its physiological effects.
Chillers and Air Handlers
A portable system that produces cold water through a series
of components. When equipped with an air handler, cold
air is generated and distributed. Requires mobilization
to the desired site along with setup requirements, such
as power hookup, water connections, and duct installation.
Collapse Search and Rescue Team (Technical Rescue
Team)
Team responds to locate, rescue, and recover individuals trapped
in a fallen structure or buried in structural collapse.
Communications
Support Team, Civil Air Patrol (CAP)
A CAP Communications Support Team
establishes and maintains CAP communications infrastructure
in support of Federal, State, and local agencies.
Confined
Space Search and Rescue Team (Mine Search and Rescue)
Team provides search and rescue services to individuals in
an enclosed area with limited entry or egress, which
has a configuration not designed for human occupancy,
such that an entrant could become trapped or asphyxiated. An
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
permit is required for confined space operations.
Crawler Cranes
Crawler cranes have a steel undercarriage. Usually used for long-term applications where
significant weights and reaches are a factor. Stabilization is accomplished through precise boom and counterweight
configuration. Best
used on level working areas. Several
mobilization units will be required to transport boom units
and counterweights. Set-up
time can be accomplished with relative ease and speed once
all components are available for assembly.
Crew Transport
Any vehicle capable of transporting a specified number of
crew personnel in a specified manner.
Critical
Care Transport (CCT)
An ambulance transport of a patient from a scene or a clinical
setting whose condition warrants care commensurate
with the scope of practice of a physician or registered
nurse (e.g., capable of providing advanced hemodynamic
support and monitoring, use of ventilators, infusion
pumps, advanced skills, therapies, and techniques).
Critical
Incident Stress Management Team (CISMT)
A Critical
Incident Stress Management Team is responsible for
the prevention and mitigation of disabling stress
among emergency responders in accordance with the
standards of the International Critical Incident
Stress Foundation (ICISF). Team composition, management,
membership and governance varies, but can include
psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and
licensed professional counselors.
