Ventura Breeze | In August, guests, Seabees and staff were invited to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s National Training Center located at 6800 Wheeler Canyon Rd, Santa Paula.
Category: News
Animals continually train for disaster duties
NewsOK | The massive pile of broken concrete slabs at Schwarz Ready Mix might look like one big mess to many people, but for the Oklahoma City Fire Department’s search and rescue dogs, the jagged chunks provide opportunity.
Seabees reservists help build Search Dog training area in Santa Paula
Ventura County Star | It’s been a long summer of hard work for dozens of Navy reservists who are helping construct the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s training center in Santa Paula.
Joe (2006 – 2016)
As a volunteer for the Search Dog Foundation (SDF), Judy Mize became familiar with the characteristics that make dogs ideally suited for SDF search and rescue operations. Judy shared this information with her daughter, Sarah Clusman, who works for the Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, CO and in December of …
Seabees help SDF as part of Innovative Readiness Training
NOSC | From moving rubble piles to installing drywall in a tilted house to installing donated school buses, the Seabees had their work cut out for them in the California heat.
Searching for fulfillment
Forbes | Why a retired teacher began training Rescue Dogs and Firefighters
Bluff collapse in Del Mar, California
First deployment for Search Dogs Decker and Sarge!Decker & Brent Brainard and Sarge & Aide Barbat of CA-TF8 (San Diego) deployed July 13, 2016 when a bluff collapsed in Del Mar.A man reported to a lifeguard that he witnessed a juvenile female walking below when the bluff collapse occurred. Del Mar Fire, …
Aviatrix Wilma Melville is honored by sister pilots
Floods, bombings and disasters call her K9s Wilma Melville and Murphy, her black lab, had time after Wilma’s retirement in 1988 to train together as a team and become one of only 15 Advanced Certified disaster search dog/handler teams in the United States. She never imagined that on April 19, …
Perfect pass rate for our latest class!
SDF | Join us in giving a Round of A-Paws to our three newest Canine Disaster Search Teams and 100% Certification Pass Rate for 10 SDF Search Teams!