By Cat McBride (with permission from Bay Woof) You’re woken up at 2 a.m. by an emergency alert blaring from your phone. You roll over and check the message: immediate callout for two trailing K9 teams to respond to a search for a missing 6-year-old in Los Gatos. You respond […]
Read MoreHonored to be a part of the California Office of Emergency Services canine resource team. National Search and Rescue Week takes place on May 16 – 22, 2024 and Cal OES recognizes all search and rescue (SAR) responders and unique task force teams who dedicate their lives to help locate […]
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Thank you to the second grade class at Tahoe Expedition Academy for hosting Ken Volz and Griffin. The class heard about: how search dogs work, how people get lost, and what to do if you are lost. We got some wonderful questions at the end. Thank you, CARDA
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We want to extend a huge thank you to all those who participated in the March 17 event at Morgan Territory in Contra Costa County. We had a total of 23 CalSAR personnel, 19 community volunteers and 15 CARDA handlers in the morning (and 12 in the afternoon, some of whom […]
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Ken Volz and “Griff” had the delight to meet with students at the Tahoe Expedition Academy on March 13. Ken and “Griff” demonstrated the “lost hiker” scenario to show the students how dogs use their nose to detect human odor and find the missing in wilderness environments. Thank you Ken, […]
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