Training operations in collapsed structures

During the last August our UC Global Rescue Dog Trainer Xavier Noriega, developed and directive the advanced course search collapsed structures with dogs, in Tarragona, in collaboration with the Civil Protection Unit.

The course was designed for rescue dog handlers and for other specialists involved in humanitarian work, with or without experience, volunteers or professionals integrated into the Fire Department, Civil Defence, Police, Army, Rescue and Rescue Groups and so on.

During the developed of the course the students made the practice in a real building collapse scenario.

The methods discussed in the course were:

• Evaluation of the Dog.
  
• Logistics in case of intervention.
  
• Safety in work environments.
  
• Working methods.
  
• Expectations of the dog in the learning
  
• Rewards without access to the victim
  
• Location of victims in chain
  
• The importance of control over the rescue dog
  
• Securing the dog buried victims, location of the zone with maximum odor
  
• How to solve common problems of frustration in remote areas
  
• Exercises tailored to the level of each dog
  
• Extraction of buried victims