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Bacco's FEMA Recertification
by Gail McCarthy - Bacco's handler and owner
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I am thrilled to announce that my Czech German Shepherd, Bacco, passed his FEMA Advanced Recertification this past weekend. My fellow FEMA teammate, Janet Merrill, and her Malinois, Chai, also passed their Recertification. The Test, or Certification Evaluation (CE) as it is now called, was sponsored by the Ohio Task Force 1, so Janet and I had to fly out to Dayton, Ohio, to take the test.  The weather predications for the weekend were horrid -- heavy rains, thunderstorms, tornados, Yikes!! -- but the skies were only ominously cloudy on the morning of our Test. The FEMA Advanced Test is conducted on two rubble piles, each approximately 6,000 - 15,000 sq. feet in size and 6'- 10' in height. The rubble debris normally consists of concrete, wood, mixed material, partially or completely collapsed structures and, in our case, was made up of concrete pillars lying all-a-jumble and interlaced with large voids and slippery steel I-beams. Each testing canine team had 20 minutes to search each pile and to locate up to 4 concealed victims in each pile, any one of whom could be buried deep down into the rubble, creating complicated, diffuse scent problems for the dog to work out. There also could be a variety of distractions in each pile and, in our case, I believe that the CE Evaluators hid food, clothing and one live cat in the pile!!! The first rubble I was assigned to search was called the "Limited Access" pile, which means that I was not allowed up on the rubble pile until my dog made his first find and barked a minimum of three barks. Once the dog barked, the handler is permitted to access the rubble to mark the alert location and to restart....read the rest HERE.

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