Category: <span>News</span>

Category: News

SDF Features

LA Teams train at the NTC

On Friday, December 2, six Los Angeles-based Canine Disaster Search Teams trained at SDF’s National Training Center. Taking advantage of our Search City and Disaster Training Zone training areas, the teams challenged themselves on rubble and building searches as well as wide area and vehicle searches. Photographed: SDF teams: Robert …

SDF Features

Our Gift to America

In honor of SDF’s two decades of service to the nation, and #Giving Tuesday, we invite you to take a trip down memory lane with us as we present the world premiere of our brand new agency video… Our Gift to America: SDF’s National Training Center 20 Years in the …

Canine Recruitment

I am Jack

I was unloved. I was untrainable. I was surrendered by my family. Jack was turned over to the Columbia Humane Society in Saint Helens, OR, after he proved to be too high-energy for the family who adopted him from a shelter in Washington State. Dogs like Jack are not easy …

SDF Features

The Tale of Two Tanners

Lance Corporal Tanner Burhoe with his namesake Search Dog Tanner When ten-year-old Stephen Tanner Burhoe experienced the sense of fear that so many of us did following the attack on the Twin Towers, it gave him a sense of security to see SDF’s dogs on the news, working diligently with …

SDF Features

Certification Success!

Congratulations to SDF’s 3 New York-based Canine Disaster Search Teams that achieved Certification this weekend!On Friday, November 4, 2016, three SDF-trained Search Teams achieved State Certification during evaluation at TEEX in College Station, TX. Veteran team Greg Gould & Dax re-certified while brand new teams Brian Girard & Keila and …