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Idaho Disaster Dogs brief council on search-and-rescue work, FEMA certification and local deployments
Summary
Idaho Disaster Dogs and Coeur d'Alene Fire's K9 team presented training standards, FEMA certification, past deployments (including Lahaina) and fundraising needs. The city is a supporting sponsor; the team requested continued local support for training and equipment.
Cody Moore and members of Idaho Disaster Dogs updated the Coeur d'Alene City Council on the fire department's canine urban search-and-rescue capability and recent deployments.
Moore introduced handlers and two dogs, saying the team trains to FEMA standards and functions as a component of larger urban search-and-rescue (USAR) teams. "We're a big part of the locate part of that," Moore said, describing the dogs' roles in locating survivors in building collapse and other technical-rescue scenarios. He described the FEMA certification process as "the hardest and most rigorous…
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