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.

•   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.
•   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.
•   2/5/10 Pictures from searching in NY Dec 2009, including a hazardous collapsed abandoned school building
•   2/5/10 Pictures from the Fall 2009 VA seminar crime scene house and a fatal house fire in Annapolis Dec 2009
•   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.
•  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.
•  1/25/10 Links to pictures of past HRD Seminars posted on the Seminars page
•  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
•   7/24/09  Spring 2009 training pictures posted: rubble, on lead targeting, land and water
•   7/21/09  BARC is the guest speaker at the Severn River Lions Club dinner
•   6/12/09  BARC is a guest speaker and performed demonstrations for the children and staff of the Goddard School in Hanover, MD
•   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.
•   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.   
•   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.
•   10/07 BARC participates at the Kent County Parks and Rec Fall Festival
•   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.
•    Training Pictures added: Water search, FEMA Eval, & more
•   Brian and Tyler pass their land cadaver evaluation & Water evaluation.  
•   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
  •  Raven as a puppy at Rocky Point's burnt down structure rubble pile
•   Kent County Parks & Rec demo and other October training pictures
•   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. 
• 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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