Emergency Services

Emergency services help to step in to save the day when an accident or another trauma happens.

Do You Have an Emergency?

Sometimes life just doesn't work out the way we want it to, despite our best intentions and despite the many lottery tickets we've bought. And when the worst happens, you need to have help, more help than your spouse or your mother-in-law thinks she can offer.

Emergency services are any sort of service that is provided to another person in a traumatic situation. These emergency services can include:

• Park rangers
• Lifeguards
• Medical - Doctors, nurses, EMTs, ambulances, first response teams
• Police
• Fire
• Coast Guard
• National Guard
• Community emergency response teams
• Disaster relief
• Rescue services
• Search and rescue
• Bomb disposal
• Amateur radio
• Hazmat
• Public utilities
• Emergency social services
• Poison Control
• Animal control

In your area, you will probably have access to most of these services, readily available via a phone call or a very loud scream.

Where Do Emergency Services Come From?

When you look at the non-comprehensive list of emergency services above, you can see that this is a list that spans nearly every corner and possibility in life. Though you might not believe bad things can happen to you, car accidents happen. Trauma and illness happen. But when you see that help can be on the way, almost immediately, you can stop worrying about leaving your home (which is also dangerous, by the way).

Emergency services are generally funded by your taxes as public services. These services are on hand to help people help themselves. By calling emergency numbers, you can have trained professionals show up at your door and then you can get the help you need or you can be taken somewhere else where help can happen.

Personal Emergency Services

With all of this information, it might seem like it's not necessary for you to help at all but this is far from the case. Since emergency services can be overwhelmed in times of physical disasters, it never hurts to be the support team until the emergency services show up at your doorstep.

• Have a first aid kit and know how to use it.
• Take CPR and AED classes for adults, children, and infants.
• Know your emergency contact numbers.
• Have an emergency store of food, water, and clothing in your home and car.

Your next emergency may still be scary, but with emergency services readily available, it does not have to be the end of the world or the end of the world for the person who is hurting. Call the right number, do the emergency support you can until they arrive, and you might just end up a hero too.