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Recent Media Coverage of
Bay Area Recovery Canines
While this unit responds as 'anonymous searchers' as our goal is to help the
community, families of those missing loved ones, and law enforcement agencies, we
sometimes do appear in media.
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![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif) 12/23/09 BARC canines
locate house fire victim in Annapolis tragedy
- 12/23/09 BARC canines
assist NCMEC on a NY search for a missing child
- The
Bay Weekly in August 2009
features a well written story on BARC and The
Northshore
Report wrote an article about a BARC member
- BARC instructs
an HRD seminar for Canfield K9 Training in VA. The
local paper
dedicates a full page to the seminar, complete with several pictures of dogs
working.
- Brevard County
Sheriff Department's (Florida)
press release pictured
a BARC handler & canine doing water search training at their March seminar
- In
February 2009 BARC responded to Oklahoma with
NCMEC's Team Adam and NecroSearch International, to assist Tulsa Police
Department in hopes of locating additional evidence of a missing girl.
- (update 6/09) BARC participated in
The Learning Channel (TLC) re-enactment for "Personal Justice" to air
Feb/March featuring the investigation into Nancy Riggins' disappearance.
Her husband was convicted for her murder. Thanks to police,
family, and friends who never gave up looking for her she was located 11
years after she disappeared . BARC K9s
assisted Howard
 County Police in the discovery of her buried remains in Oct
2007. (update 6/09) The episode aired in June 2009 on the Investigation
Discovery channel.
- 10/29/08 K9
Dino is pictured in the
Charlotte
Gazette article about training SAR/HRD dogs while attending a class in
VA.
- 2/13/08 Peggy Johnson, author
of the Annapolis Capital's Dog's World
newspaper column wrote about BARC's accomplishments.
- K9s Red, Alley, and Raven
respond to an apartment complex fire on Jan 2, 2008 in Gaithersburg, MD.
The
Gazette newspaper covered the search and
posted online 26 pictures of the dogs working the debris in their
"We Spotted" photo gallery.
- 2008 - K9 Alley is one of 15 dogs
featured in
Marilyn Jeffers Walton's new book "Badge On My Collar".
Alley's chapter tells stories from past searches, from 9-11 at the Pentagon
to a buried child to working with archeologists to the Space Shuttle mission
to many other searches where Alley responded to help find those who were
missing.
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BARC
K9 Red is shown climbing down the ladder at the police training grounds
during WRAL's news story on IPWDA Nationals
2007 held in Fayetteville, NC.
- BARC participates in Severna
Park Library's "Dog Days of Summer" event and appears in the
Severna Park Voice newspaper
(photo and interview - Sept 6, 2007)
- The September 2007 issue of
Dog Fancy magazine features Red, a BARC canine, as one of three
Hero Dogs in the article "Everyday Heroes: Meet 3 brave dogs who make a
difference" by Cherie Langlois.
 The
story focuses on Red's work after Katrina as well as all her search
successes, complete with several photographs.
- A BARC handler and canine
were shown on Fox 43 returning to base after searching a PA river for a
missing teen April 30, 2007.
- In the
Spring 2007 International Police Wok Dog Association Newsletter on the
"Members News" page, BARC handler, Heather Roche, and her canines Red &
Alley were recognized for their help in locating a missing child in PA.
- BARC assisted LASAR in a
Florida water search in July 2006.
- On June 17, 2006 BARC was
requested to respond by the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children for a missing child in PA.
NCMEC's Team Adam experts had been on scene during the ongoing search.
Earlier on the 17th, significant clues had been discovered in this tragic
case helping authorities narrow down the massive search area.
Canines Alley and Red indicated on a suspected site,
aiding authorities to the missing child's location.
-
"Dog
Heroes of September 11th" by
Nona Kilgore Bauer debuts with over 200
photo's of dogs who responded to the terrorist attacks and their stories.
Three of BARC's canines are included in the heartfelt commemorative edition
- Alley, Cassy, and Red.
-
 Red was shown working Bay
St. Louis, MS Katrina damaged areas in the May/June 2006 "Just Labs"
magazine (pics on contents page and page 23).
Contents,
page 22 &
page 23
- On
August 2, 2005 BARC responded to a water search
on Broadford Lake resulting in BARC's canines Alley and Red both
indicating on the location of the missing man, which allowed Maryland
Natural Park Police divers to make the recovery the next morning.
- June 2, 2005: BARC assists
LaSAR on a house fire search
- March 15, 2005: Several BARC members respond to the KlassKids Search
Center's search for a missing SC woman.
- February 7, 2005:
 Three of BARC's handlers with their canines respond to a
search for additional human remains along the C&O Canal in DC. Several
news channels showed clips of the BARC team members and canines searching and
at base. DC area channel 7, ABC WJLA, interviewed
Chris Hardy briefly as he emerged from the woods.
- January
12, 2005: Three of BARC's handlers with their canines respond to a water
search for a missing helicopter pilot.
Maryland State Police tell reporters that BARC's canine Alley lead them to the
location of the missing pilot. (Footage of CBS Channel 9 news)
- December
8, 2004: a BARC member travels to Louisiana and Mississippi for a series of
searches. (Neshoba Democrat
article)
- March 13, 2004: BARC
is part of a Greenville MS article about dogs being used for archeological
work in locating pre-historic grave sites.
- November 23, 2003: Alley is shown on local news while working the water for
two separate missing persons.
- June 18, 2003: NBC channel 4 coverage of DC missing person search in
Maryland showed Alley and her handler being assigned a task at base, then
entering the field to search. This search was widely covered; images of
command staff as well as other searchers were on TV and in the Washington
Post.
- May 9, 2003: The Calvert Recorder features Mid-Atlantic
Animal Specialty Hospital's (MASH) grand opening that included SAR demo's by
BARC and Mid-Atlantic Dogs. The article shows a canine using MASH's
underwater treadmill under physical therapist Amie Hesback's guidance.
 
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