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 …
At 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 16th, an explosion occurred in a two-story home just outside Albany. A ten year-old girl was found alive, but two of her family members died tragically in the disaster. There were conflicting reports about the possibility of another victim unaccounted for, and New York’s Task Force …
This past April, the intensive training of our Bay Area teams was put to the test when a hillside collapsed upon the rear of a Mill Valley home. SDF-trained search teams Jim Boggeri & Recon (Marin County Fire) and SDF handler Teresa Ortenberger and her recovery dog, Rose, were called into action.Heavy …
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 …
From Wilma Melville, SDF Founder:The third most intense hurricane on record, Hurricane Rita is now on a rampage across the Gulf of Mexico.No sooner had SDF’s canine-firefighter search teams returned home from their deployment to Hurricane Katrina (their gear still in route), than they were once again called out by …
Katrina deployment update 9/16/05We are happy and grateful to report that the following SDF search teams have safely returned home from their deployment to the Gulf States—from California (Bay Area, Sacramento, and Santa Barbara/Ventura), Florida (Coral Gables, Miami Springs, Temple Terrace), and Ohio (Bellbrook).We send our best wishes for a …
Laguna Beach Landslide: Marc & Val RespondIncident Report from Marc Valentine, SDF handler, Montebello Fire Dept.On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, a large part of Bluebird Canyon in Laguna Beach let go and started to slide downhill. All told, 22 homes were red-tagged and another 30 were yellow-tagged.At about 12:30 p.m., …
Canine Teams in Search of Survivors at the Site of Los Angeles Train DerailmentReport by Su Vodrazka SDF Canine Handler and L.A. Country Sheriff’s Department Deputy On January 26, 2005, at 6:10 a.m., Los Angeles residents awoke to the terrible news of a disaster not far from home. Two Metrolink …
Report by Michael Scott SDF Canine Handler and El Cajon Fire Department Division Chief/Fire MarshalOn December 12, 2004 a section of bluff collapsed at the Torey Pines State Beach. This isn’t the first time—several sections of the San Diego coastline are subject to bluff collapse. There have been a few …
August – September, 2004 – Hurricane CharleyOn a Friday afternoon at 3:56 p.m. the strongest storm to hit Florida in a dozen years slammed ashore with winds of up to 145 mph, leaving an 80-mile path of destruction in its wake. By 11 p.m. the call was out to SDF …
