New York Rescue Response Team (NYRRT)

New York Rescue Response Team (NYRRT) provides New York City and surrounding communities with urban search and rescue services. NYRRT has been providing quality emergency services to New York City and its residents for over a decade. Further, NYRRT provides mutual aid and/or command and control for search and rescue operations; logistical support; emergency power & lighting at community events, police investigations and extended fire department operations; distributes free smoke detectors, provides extra manpower for road/debris clearing & emergency salvage after a disaster, etc. NYRRT provides services to locate and aid persons who are missing and may be in distress or imminent danger. This may include a simple community-wide search on foot or in vehicles, to a complex overnight wilderness search in a forested urban area or a wilderness area outside the immediate urban environment. NYRRT has provided mutual aid and worked together with other public safety agencies and police departments to help search for those considered a special category of missing such as a person with mental retardation, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. Many don't realize it, but the largest city in the United States, with a population of 8.5 million, we have many people which go missing on a daily basis. NYRRT is a member of the New York State Volunteer Ambulance & Rescue Association and the National Association For Search And Rescue, the American coordinating body for national search and rescue services volunteers—which utilizes standards developed by National Fire Protection Association, Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.