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Dog Saves Family from Blaze Cat Started

A Florida family’s Golden Retriever is being called a doggy hero. The family cat however has some explaining to do. Bubba started barking when flames erupted inside the house just before midnight. It started in the front part of the home, where Saundra Frazer had fallen asleep. Charles M., who lives in duplex’s second home, also heard the barking and came running into the front room where he saw Saundra trying to extinguish the flames. “When I walked out I smelled smoke, so I run to the other door and when I run to the other door the whole wall and her room was engulfed and she was trying to fight it,”.
He said the fire kept growing so his next instinct was to get everybody out. They escaped safely. Bubba’s loud barks are being credited with waking everyone up saving them. They believe if not for him they would have died. It is believed the fire may have started when the family cat knocked over a lit candle. The house was heavily damaged.

‘Dogs of War’ Saving Lives

Afghanistan – For the US Marines patrolling southern Afghanistan, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador can mean the difference between life and death. These “dogs of war” have saved hundreds of lives and their record for finding hidden explosives is renound. “They are 98 percent accurate. We trust these dogs more than metal detectors and mine sweepers,” says handler Corporal Guzman. Trained to detect five kinds of threat, from military grade C-4 plastic explosive to common chemicals used by the Taliban to make improvised explosive devices, the dogs play a vital role. “These dogs are great. They keep our Marines alive,” says First Lieutenant MacLean, 2nd Platoon commander of the Marines 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment Charlie Company, to which the dog team is attached. Crush suddenly goes on a swift bound, sniffing out a corner of a compound in the outskirts of a Taliban stronghold. There is a quick change in his demeanour, his muscles tense up, he freezes, sticks out his tail and then lies down with his paws extended up front. The dogs also provide an emotional crutch for young Marines facing death each day. They crowd around the dogs and play with them inside the camp. Lance Corporal George Grimm, the handler of Corporal Brooks, says most Marines feel safer with his bomb team leading the way.
Brooks, a three year-old Labrador with tan fur, has been deployed three times in Iraq and Afghanistan and has helped with the recovery of approximately 14 bombs and saved many lives. “Our life is in this boy’s hands pretty much,” says Grimm, a 19-year-old who has been Brooks’ handler since late last year. Grimm grabs a rubber toy called a “konk” and lets Brooks nibble on it. Handlers say the US government spends huge amounts of money to train the dogs in a civilian-led programme contracted out by the defence department. They begin training when they are puppies, and by the time they reach two and half years old, are ready to be deployed.
With the Taliban increasingly relying on IEDs to cripple the US advance, officials say up to 70 dogs are now on operation in southern Afghanistan alone, where the insurgency is festering.
Dog Saved in Daring L.A. River Rescue

A dog rescued from a rain-swollen river by a LA firefighter hanging from a helicopter is doing fine. The three-year-old male German shepherd mix is healthy and relaxing after the rescue. Firefighter Joe St. Georges suffered bites during a rescue operation to save the dog, who has been nicknamed “Vernon” after the city where he was rescued. The dog was spotted walking in several inches of water about 11:30 a.m. near Washington Boulevard, said Erik Scott of the LA Fire Department. The sides of the ditch are steep and he was unable to climb out. St. Georges, 50, splashed down from the helicopter, wrestled with the frightened dog and lifted it to safety.
In the process, the firefighter suffered several bites on his hands and arm. Los Angeles Fire Capt. Steve Ruda says the dog is doing fine and has been checked for rabies.
Search and Rescue Dogs Go to Haiti
Trained “sniffer” search dogs from around the world have been recruited this week to aid rescue operations in Haiti. The effort appears to be unprecedented in scale.
French teams with “sniffer dogs” were headed to the airport on their way to Haiti. The dogs are trained to serve.