  In most of today's emergency scenarios information plays a crucial role.
Therefore, information has to be constantly collected and shared among all
rescue team members and this requires new innovative technologies. In this
paper a classification of emergency scenarios is presented, describing their
special characteristics and common strategies employed by rescue units to
handle them. Based on interviews with professional firefighters, requirements
for new systems are listed. The goal of this article is to support developers
designing new systems by providing them a deeper look into the work of first
responders.
