CK-9 In the News 17 Mar 11
The County Times attended 2 training sessions with the team taking photos, one on the front page, and wrote a great article on pages 16-17 (see link).
http://countytimes.somd.com/archive/2011/03-mar/2011-03-17.pdf
Calvert K-9 Search Team is a Maryland Search and Rescue Team, using highly trained search dogs to find lost and missing people. Having met all the MD requirements and standards, we were accepted as part of the NRP/MSP led Maryland Search Team Task Force (MSTTF)
Donations may be tax deductible!
If you have an emergency contact Law Enforcment (LE) at 911:
If you are LE and need search assets call or TEXT:
Kelly Burkhardt (Dep Commander) Primary LE contact at 240-808-0491
Jennifer Bos-Donaldson (Operations) 240-695-2624
Brian Shaffer (logistics) 443-486-8213
If you are interested in CK-9, you can text the numbers above or email us at calvertk9@gmail.com
or at info@calvertk9search.org
CK-9's Mission: As an all volunteer, non-profit organization, we provide fully equipped, nationally certified search dog teams, and search management personnel to find lost or missing people. We are part of the Maryland Search Team Task Force (MSTTF).
The County Times attended 2 training sessions with the team taking photos, one on the front page, and wrote a great article on pages 16-17 (see link).
http://countytimes.somd.com/archive/2011/03-mar/2011-03-17.pdf
CK-9 was called out by DNR at 1930 for an Alzheimer's walk away missing for 6 hours. We responded with 7 STMs and 2 dogs (one not arriving in time), We searched all night and into the morning before he was found alive. Fantastic job to all (especially Starbuck for fighting through all the briars only to turn around and find the humans could not make it through)! The terrain was flat, but very difficult to travel with all the briars, many areas totally impenetrable. Wu-Huuuu.
Congrats to Mike Maher, Randy Larsen and Mike Chartier for all the hard work and time leading to certification as Wilderness First Responders! Way to GO!!!
Received a MSP call out at 0920 Friday morning 28 Jan 11 to join in on a search for a missing person in the Upper Marlboro area. Great response by all for this work day, and snowing call out! We had 8 STMs and 2 airscent dogs (Georgia and Starbuck) driving enroute to the search area prior to subject being found and getting a recall notification.