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  2. International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation - Wikipedia

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    The International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation was founded in 1993 and is a registered non-profit organisation. As such, it relies upon donations to provide search and rescue dog teams with the certification, training and education necessary to find lost and missing people.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - Wikipedia

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    A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force ( US&R Task Force) is a team of individuals specializing in urban search and rescue, disaster recovery, and emergency triage and medicine. The teams are deployed to emergency and disaster sites within six hours of notification. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created the Task Force ...

  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. Search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    A SAR cruiser of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service. Search and rescue ( SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over.

  8. Grant to boost charity's life-saving capability - AOL

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    A £28,000 grant will “significantly enhance” a search and rescue service’s ability to save lives, the charity has said. Search and Rescue Dogs Association Isle of Man (Sarda IOM) received ...

  9. 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 ...