Bay Area Recovery Canines 
 Bay Area Recovery Canines (BARC) is a canine search and recovery team used
by authorities in human remains detection & recovery efforts. Canines are excellent tools to assist law enforcement in locating missing persons. We bring
our skills and experience to aid their efforts in a confidential and
professional manner. The members are experienced handlers coming from the
wilderness and FEMA search & rescue community who also specialize in working
cadaver dogs.
The experience
of the handlers and dogs goes back many years on the local, state, and federal
response systems. As leading specialists in human remains detection, BARC has responded to hundreds of missing persons
searches in the eastern states, as well as have been requested
throughout the U.S. for our specialized advanced recovery skills to work
missions such as cold cases or technically difficult scenes and for
national tragedies such the Pentagon after the 9-11 attacks and
Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Our services are free of
charge to requesting authorized agencies.
We train to high standards to ensure the best is given to those families
who are missing their loved ones.
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 BARC
can assist agencies in missing persons or evidence searches:
· Land
- remains above ground, buried, disarticulated, in buildings, or
debris/rubble
· Water
– drownings in a pond, lake, or river
· Disaster
– natural or man-made disasters for live find or for human remains
· Also
– cold
cases, fire scenes, or HRD evidence
* Dogs are trained
to indicate only on the odor of human decomposition and to ignore all other
distractions such as food, live or dead animals, noises, and other dogs working.
** Several of our
handlers are resources for the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children ** (View pictures of BARC canines working NCMEC
searches in NY Feb 2009 &
Dec 2009 & articles about
other NCMEC searches - PA 2006 &
OK 2009)
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BARC is a 501(c)(3) volunteer organization
which receives tax-deductible donations from individuals, organizations, and
corporations to support fielding qualified dogs and handlers for search & rescue
or recovery missions. BARC does not receive any government or agency
funding. All training & mission responses are done at the
expense of the handlers. All services are provided free of charge
to agencies and families.
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Bay Area Recovery Canines responded to Bay St. Louis, MS to
help the BSL Fire Department and LaSAR Dogs in their search &
recovery efforts following Hurricane
Katrina.
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 Contact Information
General information:
Email:
BARC
410-990-9122
Emergency Contact (authorized agencies
only - law enforcement, fire departments, etc):
(c) 443-994-0505
(Please leave a message)
While based in Maryland, members also live in VA, CT, MA & LA. Our primary response area is the larger eastern states
region. However, we often respond further away for special missions such
as cold cases or disasters as well as to assist other teams needing
additional resources.
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