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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Caroline Hebard (1944–2007) trained search and rescue dogs . Hebard was born in Santiago, Chile, on 20 June 1944. Her father was a British career diplomat who relocated frequently due to his government assignments. She grew up on four continents and acquired proficiency in several languages during her youth.
Schutzhund. Schutzhund (/'ʃʊtshʊnt/, German for "protection dog" [ c] ), currently known competitively as IGP[ b] and previously as IPO, [ a] is a dog sport that tests a dog's tracking, obedience, and protection skills, and evaluates if a dog has the appropriate traits and characteristics of a good working dog. [ 1]
A dog trainer with the United States Navy, which primarily trains using positive reinforcement. [1] [2]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 ...
United Kingdom International Search and Rescue Team ( UK-ISAR) is a search and rescue team from the United Kingdom that responds to humanitarian accidents or disasters on behalf of the UK Government. [1] The current team structure is classified by the United Nations as a ‘Heavy USAR Team’ (urban Search and Rescue) under the International ...