Incident response team

An Emergency Response Team (also: Incident response team ) an organization or a public authority may be used before the arrival of the actual assistants during a disaster or major incidents to explore the extent and locations of support staff and to prepare, in collaboration with already active helpers. This is regularly before international to coordinating relief operations. These teams sit next to specialists in accordance with the emergency and communication specialists mainly from logisticians together, which can estimate how far the existing infrastructure, such as an airport, one can use it.

The term is used especially in organizations that are active in a broad sense in civil protection; but also for teams meet only police or fire department tasks.