1) Lifesavers, of a sort 2) Ski patrol, at times 
`Rescue Party` is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in May 1946. It was his first story that he sold, though not the first actually published. It was republished in Clarke’s second collection, Reach for Tomorrow, and also appears in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. == Plot summary == The.....
[n] - a party of rescuers
noun a party of rescuers