KSARDA Mobile Home Park Training

Thanks to one of KSARDAs contacts, our disaster teams have been extremely fortunate to be able to train in a mobile home park slated for demolition in the state. The team will travel to this locale and train for disaster there until it is demolished. KSARDA is very happy to have this opportunity to train at such a realistic setting, as most disaster searches in the state and surrounding states are for missing individuals after a tornado. KSARDA has been on multiple searches for tornado victims in it's 10 year history and this provides a more realistic training area for those search situations than the concrete rubble. Watch as the teams progress through their training in future photos in this section.

Lorrie and K9 Chaney search a trail for Chaney's victim. K9 Skye trails his victim's path through the area.

Vicki and K9 Solo begin searching the homes for their victim. Solo searches inside one of the homes with handler Vicki.

Solo finds his victim and gives a bark alert to Vicki. Team Solo searches another home for additional victims.

You can't hide from Solo! K9 Solo finds another victim. Hooray Solo!

Solo alerts to cadaver scent during his cadaver search. K9 Sheena and Lorrie search several sheds for victims.

Sheena successfully finds the cadaver during her cadaver search. K9 R.C. alerts Sandi that her victim is located in a refrigerator.

R.C.'s cadaver search also ends successfully. K9 Bailey tells handler Tammy she found the cadaver scent.

Bailey searches through the rubble looking for her live victim. Bailey penetrates through the debris checking for scent.

Bailey is on the search for her next victim's scent. She finds her next victim in a refrigerator and gives her alert.

The team is looking forward to traveling to this locale for some great training exercises this spring for both disaster and cadaver training. When homes are destroyed in natural disasters, the area is saturated with fresh scent from human scent on clothes, toys, and furniture, to food scent, building material scent, and chemical scent.

The dogs must learn to source the victims scent through all of this to be successful and alert where the strongest scent is located. Locales such as this abandoned mobile home park give the KSARDA teams a nice simulation to prepare for when the next natural disaster occurs. The K9s have done a great job, even in their first training at this park because they are already certified search dogs who have gone through years of training with their handlers.

The handlers have a tough time giving the dogs challenging problems since they have succeeded so well thus far, but with each training, more variables will be thrown in and the problems increasing in difficulty.

Ks Search & Rescue Dog Assoc - Contact Info
Logo For More Information About KSARDA,
Please Contact:
info@ksarda.org		 NASAR Logo

Vicki Walton,
Deputy Director
 Southern Region
Annette Gaston,
Director
Russell Pugh,
Deputy Director 
Northern Region
E-Mail:  vrwalton@gmail.com E-Mail:  bngsar@earthlink.net E-Mail:  rpughfarm@yahoo.com
    Home:  316-788-2054
 Home:  913-592-2985
 Home:  785-986-6715
Cell:  316-210-9520 Cell:  913-484-9291 Cell:  785-408-9889

All Services Are Provided Free Of Charge
Call Out Numbers (for Emergency Agency Use Only):

 (785) 575-2237 Northern Region
(316) 631-8706 Southern Region

*** Callouts *** *** Capabilities *** *** Homepage *** *** What's New *** *** Links ***
Valid HTML 4.0! Photos and Content © KSARDA 2004-2005, All Rights Reserved.