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Welcome - The use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in responding to requests for lost and missing persons. Dedicated handlers and hard working, well-trained dogs are required in search efforts to be effective in their task.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:39 )
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Search And Rescue Dogs In Training |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 04:54 |
This year alone the south west panhandle search and rescue k9 and emotional first aid team have been called on 20 times, more than all of last year.
“It makes us work harder knowing the community needs us as a team,” says director of research and logistics for Southwest PAN-SAR Nancy Locke. The first exercise any of these dogs learn is a puppy runaway--someone hides--the dog finds them and then tells the handler.
“You begin to reward the dog when they find someone the next step is you reward them when they find someone and you call them back to you,” says canine handler Laurie Strite. These dogs need to be very well trained. They're put through obedience school first they have to be good with people, search and rescue certification can take two years.
“We as humans leave 40,000 cells per minute on the ground or sticking to leaves a canine can use their nose and over 150,000,000 receptor cells to detect where humans have been,” says Strite. The group receives no local or state funding. They’ve just started accepting donations. Dogs and handlers will be at the Frosty Dog in Daphne’s Jubilee shopping center September 6th from 9 am to noon. For more information on the group, you can click on the link in this story. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:31 )
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Oregon search and rescue agencies team up |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 06 October 2006 16:27 |
MEDFORD, Ore. -- Jackson County Search and Rescue and the Civil Air Patrol have begun training together, this in response to the Kim family search along Bear Camp Road in December of 2006.
"If a search gets bigger than one agency can handle, we can pool all these agencies together and actually help each other out that way," says Capt. Larry Kendrick with the Civil Air Patrol.
This past weekend, teams learned how to track Emergency Locater Transmitters. ELT's are radios designed to send out a distress signal from a crashed aircraft or someone stranded in a remote location. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:35 )
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Search And Rescue Unit Looking For Volunteers |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 07:00 |
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Page 1 of 2 If your loved one goes missing anywhere in the county, the sheriff's search and rescue unit is called into action. Now, this special unit that helps so many needs help of its own.
They are San Diego County's elite search and rescue team, but today they are not searching for missing people - they are looking for volunteers. Inside the unit's mobile command station, Rich Medhurst talked about the selfless nature of searching for others.
"There is no way to describe the feeling that you get when you hear on the radio, 'We have the subject, they are alive,'" Medhurst said.
Sergeant Don Parker leads the search and rescue unit with one distinction...
"The main difference is I get paid and they do not," he said.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:33 )
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Boys trapped in ice cave took strength from each other |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 06 October 2006 14:29 |
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Page 1 of 2 Trapped beneath tons of ice and rock, Alec Corbett and Allessandro Gelmini turned to the only person within reach: each other.
As search-and-rescue crews worked feverishly above them, the Seattle teens held hands and talked about school in the five hours they were trapped beneath a collapsed ice cave Thursday near Snoqualmie Pass, family members said.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:36 )
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