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Friday, January 29, 2010 | 
From our friends at MySafe:LA...
Meet Bo! She is a wonderful, eager, two-year old yellow labrador retriever. Her handler, Margaret Stewart is a firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department - and a director for MySafe:LA!
Margaret has a lot of wonderful stories to share about Bo, search dogs in general, and the Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) Task Force they are assigned to.
Search Dogs: Ready For Anything! from David & Cameron Barrett
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Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
3 comments:
Just curious, how many search and rescue dogs are assigned to the LAFD? I fondly remember meeting Inspector Teller and Bella and later Ranger, but have not had the pleasure of meeting Stewart or any of the others.
Mike,
(this is my own personal response and not an official response from the LAFD)
I am one of 6 handlers on FEMA CA-TF 1, which is run by the LAFD. We are all volunteers who have chosen to become certified handlers and join the FEMA task force. We also all happen to work for the LAFD but the dogs belong to the individual handlers and all training/equipment is financed by the handlers.
Inspector Teller now has 2 dogs, Ranger is her disaster dog (live find) and she also has a HRD (human remains detection) dog named Charlotte.
Thank you for your interest.
Regards,
Margaret Stewart
Firefighter, LAFD
K9 SAR Handler "Bo"
After doing some research I found this post and had some questions.
According to wikipedia you utilize a 24-foot (7 m) crewcab box van. What kind of van is it? Do you always use the van even when locally and if not how do you get to an incident? Are you able to utilize a POV vehicle similar to how a volunteer FF might respond to a station or incident?
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