About Arizona Search Track & Rescue
In the event of a missing child or loved one, the public has come to expect immediate response coupled with modern search management techniques from local agencies.
In Arizona and throughout the nation, trained Search And Rescue (SAR) teams and (SAR) dog teams have consistently proven themselves as a valuable resource to the emergency services community and local law enforcement agencies when confronted with searching urban, wilderness and desert areas as well as locating victims of drowning.
Arizona Search Track and Rescue, Inc. (AZ STaR) was formed to provide to the public, trained airscent and trailing dog/handler teams to assist in locating lost or missing persons. AZ STaR also has dog/handler teams specially trained in Alzheimer’s, cadaver and evidence searches.
A search Dogs first Find!
/0 Comments/in Blog Public /by KristiThis is the tale of a search dogs first “Find” as told by Allison Seligman of the Arizona Republic who was fortunate enough to be allowed to tag along with the teams during a recent search.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/20121220how-search-dog-found-asu-students-body.html
AZ STaR Search Dog collars National Award – 2012
/0 Comments/in Announcements, Blog Private, Blog Public /by AZSTaRhttp://www.petside.com/slideshow/akceukanuba-dog-show-photos/ace-search-and-rescue-dog
American Belgian Tervuren Club Announces
/0 Comments/in Blog Public /by KristiThe Officers and Board of Directors of the American Belgian Tervuren Club are proud to share the news that member Kristi Smith and her Tervuren, Keahi, have won the AKC’s 2012 ACE Award for Search & Rescue.
During her career with Arizona Search Track and Rescue, seven-year-old Keahi (key-ah-hee; Hawaiian for “fire”) has proved to be durable, versatile, and uncannily accurate. Certified in air-scent, avalanche, cadaver, evidence, and human-remains searches, the in-demand Terv has answered the call in nine states and Canada. She and Smith conduct approximately 43 searches a year, logging between 91 and 126 work days a year–a strenuous pace for any search team. Smith and Keahi have found lost children and wandering seniors, led investigators to the bodies of murder victims and those who have drowned (including one find 170 feet under water), and recovered key evidence in criminal investigations.
Congratulations to Kristi Smith and Keahi.
More information on the ACE Awards and Keahi can be found at
http://www.akc.org/press_center/article.cfm?article_id=4729