In the early evening hours of January 30, 2017, SDF Search Teams Eric Ingstad & Java and Cynthia Sato & Roxy were called on to respond to a landslide in Hollywood Hills with Los Angeles Fire Department.According to news reports, one of the original 911 calls was made by a …
SDF Team Searches River Bed After Vehicle Washes Up in Orange County, CAAs a third, and most powerful, storm hit Southern California this week, it packed a punch that created flooding and mudslides throughout the region. SDF-trained Search Team Alex Van & Winnie responded to a vehicle found washed up …
SDF Teams Search for Survivors After Tree Falls on Wedding Party Photo ShootWhat began as a beautiful celebration ended in tragedy the afternoon of December 17th, when a large eucalyptus tree fell on a wedding party taking photos in Whittier, CA. Sadly, the mother-of-the-bride was killed and several others injured after …
Maddie and Tanner searched for a missing person at 2am on the 19th.Maddie had been dispatched to a serious car crash as an EMT that morning. Maddie reports: “The car was about 25 yards off the road, severely damaged, on its roof in a field.” She was treating two young …
In the early afternoon of Friday, March 6th, Eric Darling & Ben were called out to search for a missing teenager in Newtown Township, PA. Together with 7 other local canine search teams, the team scoured 20 acres in snowy conditions all day Friday and Saturday. Eric also served as …
At 9:00 pm local time, Trevor Lawrence & Taylor responded to their first deployment to search a frozen canal two miles long for an elderly woman reported missing. They searched barns and other structures along the way before police received a report that the woman was found just two blocks …
At 1:00am local time, New York Search Teams set off for Erie County, NY to assist rescue crews in finding any residents stranded in their homes by huge snow drifts. With six feet of snow cover and more on the way, Greg & Dax searched nearly 150 mobile homes in a …
A train conductor contacted authorities on August 8 after the train he was driving hit a man near downtown Oklahoma City and he saw the man hurled into tall grass. Dane Yaw & Salsa were called out at 1:00pm to search for the man.A police canine worked the west side …
Teams Respond to Search for Missing Hiker in Carmel ValleyAround 9:30pm on July 3, SDF Handler Eric Hanzelka received a call from a fellow Carmel Valley Fire Department Captain requesting Eric and his Search Dog Ellie’s help to find a hiker lost in Garland Park, a wooded area in Carmel.Eric …
by SDF Firefighter Doug Van Iwaarden – Orange County Fire DepartmentLate on Friday, May 15, Wylie and I got the call to help find two missing teenagers. All the information we had was that a girl and her brother may be wandering lost in a wooded area of Cedar Grove …
