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Fire investigator: comfort dogs ease victims— anxiety, help arson work
Summary
An unnamed fire investigator described how comfort dogs reduce tension for people at fire scenes, assist investigators in rebuilding what happened and said the teams train several times a week and fund that training themselves.
An unnamed fire investigator said during a meeting that comfort dogs help calm people at fire scenes, assist investigators in determining causes and can improve firefighter safety.
"They truly do save our lives at from time to time, and they also prevent us from using escalated force," the investigator said.
The investigator described the technical work fire investigators do in arson cases and how canine or comfort-dog presence fits into that work. "It's our job as…
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