News – Page 43 – National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

SDF teams respond to Hurricane Matthew

October 7, 2016 October 19, 2016

Three SDF canine disaster search teams are currently deployed to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew:Eric Darling & Ben (Pennsylvania Task Force 1 – PA-TF1)Marshia Hall & Lilah (Florida Task Force 1 – FL-TF1)Julie Padelford-Jansen & Ricochet (Florida Task Force 2 – FL-TF2)Eric & Ben are heading toward Florida …

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First facility of its kind in the nation

October 5, 2016 June 7, 2018

Ventura Breeze | In August, guests, Seabees and staff were invited to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s National Training Center located at 6800 Wheeler Canyon Rd, Santa Paula.

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Animals continually train for disaster duties

August 17, 2016 June 7, 2018

NewsOK | The massive pile of broken concrete slabs at Schwarz Ready Mix might look like one big mess to many people, but for the Oklahoma City Fire Department’s search and rescue dogs, the jagged chunks provide opportunity.

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Seabees reservists help build Search Dog training area in Santa Paula

August 17, 2016 June 7, 2018

Ventura County Star | It’s been a long summer of hard work for dozens of Navy reservists who are helping construct the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s training center in Santa Paula.

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Joe (2006 – 2016)

August 5, 2016 January 10, 2023

As a volunteer for the Search Dog Foundation (SDF), Judy Mize became familiar with the characteristics that make dogs ideally suited for SDF search and rescue operations. Judy shared this information with her daughter, Sarah Clusman, who works for the Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, CO and in December of …

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The Quest 2015

July 27, 2016 June 6, 2018

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Seabees help SDF as part of Innovative Readiness Training

July 27, 2016 June 7, 2018

NOSC | From moving rubble piles to installing drywall in a tilted house to installing donated school buses, the Seabees had their work cut out for them in the California heat.

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Searching for fulfillment

July 27, 2016 June 7, 2018

Forbes | Why a retired teacher began training Rescue Dogs and Firefighters

Deployment Reports

Bluff collapse in Del Mar, California

July 14, 2016 August 3, 2016

First deployment for Search Dogs Decker and Sarge!Decker & Brent Brainard and Sarge & Aide Barbat of CA-TF8 (San Diego) deployed July 13, 2016 when a bluff collapsed in Del Mar.A man reported to a lifeguard that he witnessed a juvenile female walking below when the bluff collapse occurred. Del Mar Fire, …

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Aviatrix Wilma Melville is honored by sister pilots

June 24, 2016 June 30, 2016

Floods, bombings and disasters call her K9s Wilma Melville and Murphy, her black lab, had time after Wilma’s retirement in 1988 to train together as a team and become one of only 15 Advanced Certified disaster search dog/handler teams in the United States. She never imagined that on April 19, …