The best breeds for search and rescue are intelligent, trainable dogs who have powerful scent and tracking abilities. Hounds, for instance, have an extremely keen sense of smell, and other breeds have ...

ELDRIDGE, Iowa — Volunteers with the Quad Cities Missing Persons Network (QCMPN) spent the weekend training their search-and-rescue dogs to locate missing people, dead or alive. The organization’s ...

COMFORT - Luna stood calmly in a plastic tub behind Comfort High School, a stoic look on her face as Amy Sittler sprayed her with a hose and scrubbed her with a disinfectant. The 5-year-old Belgian ...

The Rachael Ray Foundation's Rescue Brigade program helped Cam the golden retriever start disaster search dog training Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

When former police bloodhound handler Kat Albrecht lost her own dog, she began to panic, but then stopped herself. Albrecht realized exactly what she needed to find her missing canine: another search ...

HAYS COUNTY — Chelly the German Shepherd trotted into the clearing and stood at attention, ears alert and straining on her leash. When her handler Beth Traynham instructed her to search, Chelly moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flash is one of four dogs working with the special paramedic teams [BBC] A specialist Scottish Ambulance Service unit which ...

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 ...

THOMASVILLE — Heidy Drawdy and her husband, Michael, were presented with a Homeland Defense Service Award (Medals # 119 and #120) during last April’s 151st Confederate Memorial Day Service sponsored ...

Phoenix Fire is remembering K-9 Merlyn, a search and rescue dog with steady courage and a gentle spirit.