According to Norwegian media, Geere and Mir, together with their handlers Morten and Kristin, used their noses to find a 24-year old woman in Kathmandu who had been buried deep under rubble (4 floors down) for 5 days. The rest of the Norwegian team together with rescue workers from Israel and France were able to pull out the young woman alive and give her medical care. Los Angeles Task Force 2, Virginia Task Force 1, and Canine Disaster Search Teams from around the world are working with Nepali rescue teams – still hoping to find more survivors.
Team USA, including SDF Search Teams, helped find and rescue a teenage boy. They are still searching, doing everything they can to find survivors, and will continue as long as there’s a possibility of saving lives.
“We’ll risk it all to find survivors.”
“This is a very unstable area still. We’re removing debris that’s holding large pieces of concrete up. We have structural engineers here to assist, we have buildings that are leaning, so there’s a lot of danger in potential that we have in this disaster site but when there’s a live victim and a potential to save somebody, we’ll risk it all.”
-SDF Handler Andy Olvera, Canine Coordinator, L.A. Task Force 2