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Emergency maintenance is the urgent, unplanned repair performed in response to a fault or failure to restore operation as quickly as possible. This makes the statement that it is repaired only after a failure the true one: the work happens because a failure has occurred or is imminent, and the goal is to fix it right away to prevent further damage or downtime.

The other statements don’t fit. Scheduling months in advance describes preventive or planned maintenance, not emergency work. The idea that it should escalate into emergency maintenance runs counter to the purpose of handling a failure promptly and stopping it from getting worse. And emergency maintenance isn’t never deliberate—decision-makers may deliberately trigger urgent actions in response to a critical condition, even though the work itself is unplanned.