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Long Beach Search and Rescue is a specialist Explorer post of the Learning for Life program with the Boy Scouts of America. It is an urban search and rescue unit based out of Long Beach, California, and is sponsored by the Long Beach Police Motor Patrol Association and Long Beach Firefighters' Associations.
Long Beach Search and Rescue is designated by the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services as a Type II — Medium rescue resource, the only volunteer unit in the nation to receive this designation, which most professional fire departments do not have.
Long Beach Search and Rescue is on call 24/7 and assists the Long Beach Police and Fire Departments in officer-involved shootings, fires, evidence and missing persons searches, natural disasters, and other incidents.