Late in the afternoon of March 16th, Dennis Clark & Rugby and Gary Durian & Tanker were deployed to search for a vehicle that had plunged 800 feet over the side of a cliff in Mt. Baldy, in Southern California. One person was airlifted out immediately, but Rugby and Tanker …
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 …
In June of 2008, Karen Klingberg, SDF’s then Program Manager, made her first trip to Idaho to look at a few canine candidates and build partnerships with shelters and breed rescue groups there. Guided by Jan Peterson and Nick Demarco, both puppy raisers for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), she …
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 …
Around 8:30pm local time, Luis Garcia & Maxim and Fidel Gomez & Rosie were activated to search a collapsed office building in the Villas del Real neighborhood in the eastern part of Tijuana. The building was used by a real estate company and while no employees were on site at …
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 …
SPCA Heartline | What do you do with a dog who is bursting with energy, is more than a little compulsive, and has an insatiable drive to play, play, play?
On Halloween morning, Alex Mengell & Gunner set out on their first deployment—an apartment explosion in Walnut Creek, east of San Francisco. When they arrived, Alex & Gunner found the entire top floor of the building had been destroyed, leaving a huge pile of rubble covering the ground floor. Gunner …
