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Sign in to savethumb|An emergency medical technician treats a woman who has collapsed in the street in New York. Dangers to life and health are serious enough that emergency response systems are considered vital. thumb|right|Emergency slides are deployed after the crash landing of British Airways Flight 38
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- Defining an emergency
- Types of emergency
- Dangers to life
- Dangers to health
- Dangers to the environment
- Systems of classifying emergencies
- Agencies involved in dealing with emergencies
- Summoning emergency services
- Civil emergency services
- Domestic emergency services
- Emergency action principles (EAP)
- Key emergency principle
- Managing an emergency
- State of emergency
- See also
- References
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thumb|An emergency medical technician treats a woman who has collapsed in the street in New York. Dangers to life and health are serious enough that emergency response systems are considered vital. thumb|right|Emergency slides are deployed after the crash landing of British Airways Flight 38
An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative care for the aftermath.