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===Ground (lowland) search and rescue===
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Ground search and rescue is the search for persons who are lost or in distress on land or inland waterways. People may go missing for a variety of reasons. Some may disappear voluntarily, due to issues like [[domestic abuse]]. Others disappear for involuntary reasons such as mental illness, getting lost, an accident, death in a location where they cannot be found or, less commonly, due to [[Kidnapping|abduction]]. Ground search and rescue missions that occur in urban areas should not be confused with "urban search and rescue", which in many jurisdictions refers to the location and extraction of people from collapsed buildings or other entrapments.<ref name="FEMAUSR">{{cite web|url = http://www.fema.gov/emergency/usr/|title = Urban Search and Rescue (US&R)|access-date = 11 January 2010|last = U.S. Department of Homeland Security|date=May 2009}}</ref>

In some countries, the [[police]] are the primary agency for carrying out searches for a missing person on land. Some places have voluntary search and rescue teams that can be called out to assist these searches.

Search and rescue agencies may contain small specialist teams for executing operations where there are specific environmental risks. Examples include swift water rescue, flood response, technical rope rescue, confined space rescue, over-snow rescue, and thin ice rescue.