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  2. International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation - Wikipedia

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    The training of search and rescue dogs often starts at the age of eight weeks. Courses, trainings and testing events prepare the canines step by step for the case of emergency. IRO trains search and rescue dogs in the disciplines of Tracking, Area Search, Rubble Search and Avalanche Search as well as Water Rescue and Mantrailing.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Dog training - Wikipedia

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    A dog trainer with the United States Navy, which primarily trains using positive reinforcement.. Dog training is a kind of animal training, the application of behavior analysis which uses the environmental events of antecedents (trigger for a behavior) and consequences to modify the dog behavior, either for it to assist in specific activities or undertake particular tasks, or for it to ...

  8. International Search and Rescue Advisory Group - Wikipedia

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    The International Search and Rescue Advisory Group ( INSARAG) is a network of disaster-prone and disaster-responding countries and organizations dedicated to urban search and rescue (USAR) and operational field coordination. It aims to establish standards and classification for international USAR teams as well as a methodology for international ...

  9. Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue - Wikipedia

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    The training is composed of weekend-long field experience training once per month, and instructional courses once per week, amounting to an estimated 430 hours spread over a period of two years. Because of the role of rescue teams in civil defence , the school has received some support from Iceland Catastrophe Insurance.