A running joke with my department chairs, when I was a dean, involved the awarding of merit badges for the accomplishment of a particularly thorny task that the outside world (outside of academia, ...

SO THIS IS A VERY SPECIALIZED UNIT. THERE’S ONLY 28 URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS FEDERALLY IN THE UNITED STATES. WE HAPPEN TO HAVE ONE OF THEM. AND THE SACRAMENTO FIRE DEPARTMENT IS THE LEAD ...

WorldAnimalFoundation.org is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn More When it comes to search and rescue operations, dog breeds with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Editor's note: Through an online fundraiser, community members donated over $73,000 to the search-and-rescue team, allowing them to replace all the stolen equipment. The search ...

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) volunteers are deploying to assist in the search for a missing man southwest of city limits. In a social media post, KSAR says it was called around around ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile police and Daphne Search and Rescue said they saved two puppies that were thrown from Dog River Bridge. The rescue was made by Mobile PD along with Daphne Search and ...

The thieves targeted the search and rescue team’s storage yard, cutting through a 10-foot barbed wire fence and making off with thousands of dollars worth of equipment, according to the Skamania ...

Skamania County’s search and rescue team was hit by thieves over the weekend, just as the team was ending its search for two Oregon men who disappeared in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team spent three days searching for the missing Portland men who tragically died while looking for Sasquatch in ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. (KPTV) - The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office’s search and rescue team was targeted by thieves just days after it set out to find two people who disappeared in the ...

Abstract: Search and rescue (SAR) assumes primary focus during the post-disaster response phase. In recent years, the rapid advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target detection technology have ...