Category: <span>News</span>

Category: News

Deployment Reports

Search Teams ensure no survivors left behind in Poughkeepsie building collapse

On June 18, SDF-trained Search Teams Brian Girard & Keila and Greg Gould & Dax answered the call when a storm caused a seven-story building collapsed into neighboring structures, causing a total of five buildings to come down. Rescuers immediately discovered one woman alive in the rubble but the destruction …

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Gunny (2011 – 2024)

In February of 2012, Sacramento City firefighter and SDF handler Jeff Ivy contacted our office to notify us that he had a dog he felt would be great for urban disaster search and rescue work. Having been paired with his own Search Dog, Jakers, in 2006, Jeff knew exactly what …

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Kari & Chris Bergquist

Team Info   Task Force: California Task Force 7 (CA-TF7) Agency: Sacramento City Fire Level: DHS/FEMA Certified Most Recent Certification: May 30, 2015   Search Dog Info   Breed: Golden Retriever Sex: Female Born: March 23, 2009 Donated by: Gordon Family Recruited by: Heidi Miller Prep Home: Marshia Hall Pup Raiser: Tina Brennan Guardians: Marybeth Little, Carol Sidlow Kari …

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Josie (2013 – 2025)

  Previously named Sequoia, this ball-obsessed Black Lab was recruited for SDF’s program by longtime volunteer Penny Woodruff in March 2014. Penny received a call from a staff member at Lassen Animal Control in Susanville, CA who thought she had identified a potential search dog candidate for SDF’s training program. Sequoia had been surrendered to the …