The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is raising a squad of 162 dogs to help its personnel to rescue people trapped under the debris after natural calamities like earthquakes.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is raising a squad of 162 dogs to help its personnel to rescue people trapped under the debris after natural calamities like earthquakes. Sources said the NDRF, that was involved in disaster rescue work after the floods in Uttarakhand, J&K and Chennai and the earthquake in Nepal last year, has undertaken the exercise in “mission mode”.
The force is training a batch of 162 dogs for specialised Urban Search and Rescue tasks, under which NDRF teams have to sift through mounds of rubble to look for life trapped beneath. Several of them have finished their regime and are being subjected to drills and field exercises where they are made to sniff out life in a collapsed concrete structure.
The canines being trained by NDRF are different from the regular police and tracker dogs.
