ESF 9 - Search & Rescue

Emergency Support Function (ESF) #9 – Search and Rescue (SAR) deploys SAR resources to provide lifesaving assistance to local, state, tribal, territorial, and insular area authorities, including local SAR Coordinators and Mission Coordinators, when there is an actual or anticipated request for Federal SAR assistance. 

• Life-saving assistance

• Urban search and rescue

• Search and Rescue (SAR)

• Water Rescue