A California-based FEMA urban search-and-rescue team has stationed four search dogs and their handlers at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington, conducting drills and standing ready to assist amid the state's flood threats. Read On…
Marlin, a two-year-old stray from the Sioux Falls Humane Society, has been sent to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation in California for evaluation to determine whether he can be trained as a search-and-rescue dog. Read On…
The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation in Ojai fields 18 animals — 13 dogs — and deployed teams to the World Trade Center after the September 2001 attacks, training handlers and dogs to find living victims in rubble. Read On…