San Francisco Chronicle | Eric Gray and Riley comb the wreckage in tsunami-ravaged Ofunato, Japan.
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Rescue dogs arrive in Japan
Santa Barbara News-Press | Eric Gray & Riley, and Linda Tacconneli & Joe travel to help in Japan.
Rescued dog now an award-winning rescue dog
Ventura County Star
In Haiti, Pearl ventured deep inside collapsed buildings, into gaps in the rubble too small for her 6-foot-6 handler, to sniff out survivors of that country’s devastating earthquake.
Search Dog Team sniffs out hope in Haiti
The Orange County Register
Gary Durian and Baxter work around the clock in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in hope of finding signs of life.
Thousand Oaks man, dog help save lives in Haiti
Ventura County Star
In his 12 years as a search dog handler, Ron Weckbacher has witnessed the devastation wrought by many disasters, but the destruction caused by the earthquake in Haiti was the worst he’s ever seen.
Structural collapse in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville Deployment ReportBy Marshia Hall, Temple Terrace FireOn December 6, 2007, Search and Rescue teams across Florida were called out to assist the Jacksonville Fire Department with a structural collapse. Parts of a six-story parking garage had gone down while under construction. A worker who had witnessed the collapse said …
Daly City wall collapse
Teams: Dave Ramsay & Sandy, Tom Carney & GypsyMidway into a demolition project, a 100 x 20 foot concrete wall fell onto a residential street, killing a 48 year-old woman as she sat in her parked car. It was suspected that three workers were also missing and SDF teams were …
Florida building collapse
At 11:00 a.m. on the morning of May 6th, a Search Dog Foundation canine-firefighter team was called into action when the construction frame of a highrise hotel-condo collapsed in Bal Harbour, near Miami, sending a three-foot layer of drying concrete onto workers and trapping them beneath the debris.Thanks to your …
Sacramento building collapse
Captain Rick Lee of Sacramento City Fire and his partner Ana, a rescued Golden Retriever, were one of SDF’s very first search teams. In addition to being on call for major state and national disasters, Rick and Ana (like other SDF search teams) serve their community by responding to local emergencies. Some …