Need Help? Call 2-1-1 or Chat
Weekdays 8am-7pm, Weekends 8am-3:30pm

[ Browse by Service Category : Environment and Public Health/Safety : Sub-Topics of Public Safety (143) ]

Emergency Rescue

Programs that provide emergency rescue operations and/or lifesaving activities for people who are stranded, lost, accident victims or exposed to other life threatening dangers.

[ View Programs and Services (3) | Related Topics ]

Fire Services

Programs that are responsible for preventing, investigating, controlling and extinguishing fires. Activities include fire safety education, firefighting, investigating the causes of suspicious fires, maintaining equipment and trained firefighters necessary for a quick and efficient response to fires when they occur, and enforcing fire codes which protect lives and property from fires and explosions arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, or from conditions hazardous to life and property in the use or occupancy of buildings or other premises.

[ View Programs and Services (132) | Related Topics ]

Fire Stations

Locations throughout the community which house fire equipment and personnel.

[ View Programs and Services (1) | Related Topics ]

911 Services

Programs that operate a telephone response service staffed by trained personnel who assess requests for emergency assistance and dispatch the appropriate emergency response agency (law enforcement, fire, paramedics/EMTs or ambulance services).

[ View Programs and Services (1) | Related Topics ]

Safety Education Programs

Programs whose primary purpose is to make the public aware of the measures that people can take to reduce the risk of fires or accidents in the home, at school, at work, in the air or on the water or while walking, driving or riding as a passenger in a motor vehicle; and/or which provide instructions for preparing for and surviving an accident should one occur. Also included are programs that conduct related safety inspections, particularly in the traffic safety area.

[ Sub-Topics | View Programs and Services (7) | Related Topics ]

The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.


In partnership with...