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  2. Search and rescue dog - Wikipedia

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    A search-and-rescue (SAR) dog is a dog trained to respond to crime scenes, accidents, missing persons events, as well as natural or man-made disasters. [1] These dogs detect human scent, which is a distinct odor of skin flakes and water and oil secretions unique to each person [1] [2] and have been known to find people underwater, snow, and ...

  3. International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation - Wikipedia

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    The International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation (IRO) is the worldwide umbrella organisation for search and rescue dog work and partner of the UN organisation INSARAG. It unites more than 250,000 people worldwide with about 4,000 certified search and rescue (SAR) dogs. The headquarters are in Salzburg.

  4. Search and rescue in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Search and rescue in the United States. Search and rescue in the United States involves a wide range of organizations that have search and rescue responsibilities. In January 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the National Response Framework (NRF) which serves as the guiding document for a federal response ...

  5. Training New Mexico's search and rescue dogs is intensive ...

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    Mar. 7—Dax, a 1-year-old black Labrador retriever, barreled through the snow-covered desert terrain just outside White Rock, past piñons and junipers and toward Ed Santiago, a volunteer search ...

  6. Video Showing How Avalanche Rescue Dogs Find People ... - AOL

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    A properly trained search and rescue dog can scan an area as big as two football fields in about thirty minutes. The same area would take a team of twenty people over eight hours to search.

  7. Colorado Training Facility Helps Rescues Become Service Dogs

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    Training facility gives rescue dogs second chance at life in Colorado. Michelle Abel has been training dogs for more than three decades, as Fox 31 reports. In 2021, she began rescuing and ...

  8. Bretagne (dog) - Wikipedia

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    August 25, 1999. Died. June 6, 2016. ( 2016-06-07) (aged 16) Cypress, Texas. Bretagne (August 25, 1999–June 6, 2016) [1] (pronounced Brittany) [2] was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. [3] It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss, [4 ...

  9. Once unwanted, these lucky dogs were rescued. Now they're ...

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    Also, Zarrella's experience shows that some unwanted dogs, or so-called "rescue dogs," have what it takes to perform at the highest levels of K9 search and rescue. Dog that were once rescued ...