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Web Changes
This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first. Also check News Media
for media coverage of BARC activities.
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2/19/10 Added pictures from
two 2009 events: Instructing at the 2009
ARDA National Training Weekend - building searches (sheriff department's
live fire building which had a catwalk for observers) & BARC
participated in the Maryland Cub Scouts' JOTA event
Oct 2009.
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2/5/10 Pictures from training at Eastern
State Hospital abandoned buildings Jan 2010. ESH buildings will be
used at the upcoming HRD seminars in March & May.
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2/5/10 Pictures from
searching in NY Dec 2009,
including a hazardous collapsed abandoned school building
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2/5/10 Pictures from the
Fall 2009 VA seminar crime
scene house and a fatal house fire in
Annapolis Dec 2009
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2/5/10 Pictures from
participating in a
multi-school program with law enforcement Dec 2009 (program runs through
2010), added Cathy's K9s Rusty & Dante's pictures on the
Members page.
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1/25/10 2nd HRD Building Workshop
announcement: May 7-9th, 2010 in Williamsburg, VA. (March workshop is full)
More information and registration forms on our
Seminars page.
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1/25/10 Links to pictures of
past HRD Seminars posted on the Seminars page
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1/14/10
Video of Instructor
Heather Roche's HRD canine 'Red' working a few building problems at
the ARDA National Weekend (U-Tube) - showing a class participant the
automatic down indication (using a clicker). Video taken by ARDA handler, Autumn Manka Oct 2009
- BARC canines
locate house fire victim in Annapolis tragedy
- BARC canines
assist NCMEC on a NY search for a missing child
- Updated
Members page: Bob St Martin
joins BARC with his canines Bartl and Roxy
- 10/02/09 The
Bay Weekly in August 2009
features a well written story on BARC and The
Northshore
Report writes an article about a BARC member

- 10/02/09 New pictures posted
online:
Summer water & land trainings 2009, early
summer 2009 search and working a historic
cemetery
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7/24/09 Spring 2009 training pictures posted: rubble,
on lead targeting, land and water
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7/21/09 BARC is the
guest speaker at the
Severn River
Lions Club dinner
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6/12/09 BARC is a guest
speaker and performed demonstrations for the children and staff of the
Goddard School in Hanover, MD
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4/26/09 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.
- 5/22/09 Announcement of
a fall HRD seminar in FL with top notch nationally
recognized instructors from law enforcement and BARC hosted by Brevard
County Sheriff Department
- 4/22/09 BARC
presentations on new Articles page & the Brevard County
Sheriff Department's (Florida)
press release pictured
a BARC handler & canine doing water search training at their March seminar
- 4/10/09 Training pictures at
Belle Grove: 4 days in Jan 2009 &
Feb 2009
- 4/10/09 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.
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12/18/08
SAR Training Using
Food Rewards - the pro's & con's and suggestions on when and why to use
food as a reward, or as part of the reward system, for training SAR dogs.

- 12/14/08 Training at
Belle Grove rubble site and news about an
upcoming BARC instructor led seminar in VA hosted
by Canfield & Mosley K9 Training
- 11/19/08 Training at
Belle Grove 11-9-08 (new scent box with reward
system)
- 10/29/08 K9 Dino is pictured in the
Charlotte
Gazette article about training SAR/HRD dogs while attending a class in
VA and a photo gallery of the week's training.
- 10/3/08 Pictures from water
trainings in 2008 - Summer &
Fall
- 8/29/08
One of
BARC's founding dogs,
Alley, lost her battle with cancer after having a long successful
career serving the community. Alley is the canine in BARC's logo.
- 9/8/08
K9
Alley is awarded the
AKC
ACE Award Honorable Mention for her service in Search and Rescue.
- 4/22/08 Raven attended
K-9 Specialty Search Associates'
Intermediate Cadaver class in Chico, CA in April 2008.
- 4/18/08 Karen Garvin, a
student at Unv. of MD, presented a
summary of a journal article that appeared in Forensic Science
International on the
use
of cadaver dogs success rates on contaminated carpet squares. The
presentation cover slide shows BARC's K9 Tyler working a pallet pile for
HRD and is posted on her
blog.
- 2/13/08 Peggy Johnson, author
of the Annapolis Capital's Dog's World newspaper column wrote about BARC's accomplishments.
- 2/13/08 pictures of
abandoned building training weekend Feb 9-10,
2008 added to Photos section.
- 1/18/08 new pictures added -
trainings fall 2007 & winter 2008: Nov 07 agility &
trailer search, Dec 07 rubble, and
Jan 08
- 1/9/08 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.
- 1/8/08
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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12/21/07 K9 Raven certifies
in Human Remains Detection. Her first search is the apartment fire on
1/2/08.
- 10/07
Two BARC handlers
participate in IPWDA Nationals 2007.

- 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.
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10/07
BARC participates at the Kent County Parks and Rec Fall Festival
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8/07
BARC participates in the Severna Park Library's "Dog Days of
Summer" event and appears in the Severna Park Voice
newspaper (photo and interview - Sept 6, 2007)
- 9/07
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.
- 7/07
BARC is a guest presenter at Washington College for the Johns
Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth program. The students
participated in an interactive discussion and demonstrations on using dogs
to detect human odor.
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Training Pictures added:
Water search, FEMA
Eval, & more
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Brian and Tyler pass their land cadaver
evaluation & Water evaluation.
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Meet Susan and Blaze and see Blaze's first
full weekend training at the BARC Open
Training Weekend where teams came to prepare for the upcoming IPWDA
disaster test as well as participate in general water training.
- BARC attends
IPWDA 2006 Nationals in
Rhode Island
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Kent County Parks & Rec demo and other October
training pictures
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BARC assists LASAR for a Florida water search
- See BARC canines' excerpts from
Nona Kilgore Bauer's amazing book
"Dog Heroes of September 11th" released
for the 5th anniversary of 9-11.
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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
- BARC's indications on a MS Indian mound in 2003 &
2004
were confirmed on 3/24/06 after the mound had been cleared of heavy brush
and a week of downpours revealed pre-historical human remains.
- One of
BARC's founding dogs,
Cassy, passed away after having a long successful
career serving the community.
- BARC responded to hurricane
Katrina's aftermath in Bay St. Louis to help LaSAR Dogs & the BSL Fire
Department in their search & recovery efforts.
- BARC updates
website to include 2004 pictures, including BARC working Indian Mounds in
Mississippi (appx 1,000 years old). Two MPEG video clips show Alley &
Red working a full burial.
- 3/21/03
Bay Area Recovery Canines
Establishes Internet Presence.
  
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