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The World Trade Center's Heroic Rescue Dogs, Page 2

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - USA

NEW YORK CITY -- A week has passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.  But while the soot and debris may have settled, courageous hearts have not.  Canine rescue teams are not about to give up, as long as a single cavity remains untapped beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Around the nation, in the Americas and all over the Free World, their canine brethren report for duty at airports and areas of public assembly to ensure the security of our lives.

A rescue dog is transported out of the debris of the World Trade Center.
(Photo: Sep 15, 2001, US Navy / Preston Keres)

"They go underneath into void spaces--anywhere we can get the dogs in.  The site is very difficult agility for the dogs.  They're crawling on their bellies and squeezing through things.  It's incredible to watch."
-- Sharon Gattas, Riverside Urban Search and Rescue

Emergency workers walk with two dogs down West Street as they leave the scene of "the pile".  Work shifts have been increased to 12-hour stretches, sometimes extending to 16 hours of non-stop searching.
(Photo: Sep 17, 2001, AP / Roberto Borea)

"You can train all you want, but this is the mother lode. The dogs can feel it."
-- Officer Joe Caputo, NYC Police K-9 Unit

Grim faces and sad tails show the frustration--and the unshaken resolve--of rescuers from the Maryland Task Force Rescue Team on lunch break.  Handlers say that dogs trained to find survivors feel as if it's their fault for not being able to find anyone.  No survivors have been located since last Wednesday when canine search teams helped locate five injured people.
(Photo: Sep 11, 2001, REUTERS / Mike Theiler)

"They will search endlessly for that scent until they are called off." -- Lori Mohr, National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

(Photo: Sep 17, 2001, AP / Ted S. Warren)
At Federal Hall, Officer D. McFadden and "Durac" help oversee the safe, smooth opening of the New York Stock Exchange after the longest suspension of securities trading in history, while inside, "Dusty" (below), a SAR dog from Sacramento, CA rings the opening bell.

(Photo: Sep 19, 2001, Reuters)

"After you, Spot."
The nation's leader and the nation's leading dog step off Marine One after a weekend of national security meetings at Camp David.  See also "A Dog in the Hand is Worth Bush in the Whitehouse".
(Photo: Sep 16, 2001, AP / Doug Mills)

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