Around 4:40 am on Thursday, May 7, 2020, Alameda County Fire Department responded to a commercial building explosion in San Leandro. SDF-trained Search Dog Gunner’s handler, Alex Mengell, was requested by the department to respond and confirm no one left behind inside the building after it exploded. Arriving first responders …
At 10:30 am on April 14, two SDF-trained San Diego area search teams, Aide Barbat & Delta and Mike Brice & Blake, were called to the beach in Torrey Pines State Park where a small portion of the cliff had fallen onto the beach. Unfortunately, this area is popular with …
Just after 7 p.m. on the evening of April 7, 2020, Search Teams Adam Leckonby and Luka and Brian Girard and Keila of New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services and New York Task Force 2 received a call from Schenectady County Emergency Manager to assist in …
On January 27, 2020, SDF-trained search teams in the San Diego area deployed to search for two missing people following a vehicle rollover: Three SDF-trained search dogs were called into action on Monday, January 27, in the Granite Hills area of El Cajon, California, after a vehicle rolled over a …
On August 24, 2019, a large storm system began moving across the Atlantic, headed for the Caribbean. As it neared the Bahamas, it picked up speed and intensity, growing into Hurricane Dorian, a devastating category 5 storm. Stalling over the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian wreaked havoc on the island nation for …
On Monday, August 5, newly partnered Search Teams Luis Garcia & Montecito and Fidel Gomez & Gemma were dispatched to a missing at-risk person search in an area called Mesa de Otay near Tijuana, Mexico. Luis and Monte were the first to arrive at the scene and performed a perimeter …
On August 2, 2019, three family members were killed and two injured last Friday afternoon when a cliff collapsed on a busy beach in Encinitas, CA, just north of San Diego. Brent Brainard & Decker and Joe Zakar & Dora (both with San Diego Fire-Rescue Department) responded to search for …
On July 16, 2019, SDF-trained search teams with Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed to two back-to-back calls for help in the LA area: The roof over the lobby of the Lady Luck Casino in Gardena, CA collapsed in the late morning. It was known that there were people inside …
On June 22, 2019, a 73-year-old man was separated from his hiking group in the mountains near La Canada Flintridge, CA. SDF-trained Search Teams Manny Sampang & Eva and Ryan Greenup & Koda (both with Los Angeles County Fire Department) were sent out as a part of a massive search …
On Sunday, June 9, just after 2 p.m. local time, a construction crane collapsed into an occupied apartment building in Dallas, TX amid a thunderstorm that produced strong winds and hail throughout the area. Three SDF-trained canine disaster search teams were called upon to search the building for anyone trapped …
