EMERGENCY SERVICES
Emergency Services (ES) is a primary mission of Civil Air
Patrol (CAP). Emergency Services provides assistance to the
community in times of need. These include natural disasters like
extreme weather or results from weather like fires and property
damages as well as aircraft mishaps. In recent times CAP has
also provided civilian assistance to Homeland security.
ES manages three basic operations on each mission - a Base
operations, Air operations and Ground operations.
Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are conducted to locate
and provide assistance to those in need whether due to a
downed aircraft or a missing person. CAP provides SAR
operations to nearly 90% of all aircraft emergency alerts.
Many of these alerts or due to accidental activations of aircraft
Emergency Location Transponders(ELTs)
In times of major disasters CAP works very closely with other
Emergency Services organizations such as Emergency
Management Agency (EMA) here in Ohio. In order to provide
smooth transitions when working with such organizations CAP
has implemented the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) Incident Command System (ICS). This is a
standardized organization that allows different emergency
organizations like EMA, local police and fire and CAP to
smoothly and efficiently set up needed resources and personnel
in a very short time period.
Patrol (CAP). Emergency Services provides assistance to the
community in times of need. These include natural disasters like
extreme weather or results from weather like fires and property
damages as well as aircraft mishaps. In recent times CAP has
also provided civilian assistance to Homeland security.
ES manages three basic operations on each mission - a Base
operations, Air operations and Ground operations.
Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are conducted to locate
and provide assistance to those in need whether due to a
downed aircraft or a missing person. CAP provides SAR
operations to nearly 90% of all aircraft emergency alerts.
Many of these alerts or due to accidental activations of aircraft
Emergency Location Transponders(ELTs)
In times of major disasters CAP works very closely with other
Emergency Services organizations such as Emergency
Management Agency (EMA) here in Ohio. In order to provide
smooth transitions when working with such organizations CAP
has implemented the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) Incident Command System (ICS). This is a
standardized organization that allows different emergency
organizations like EMA, local police and fire and CAP to
smoothly and efficiently set up needed resources and personnel
in a very short time period.
