Handler Steve Carr talks about the vital role played by search and rescue dog Frankie.
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00:00 [Applause]
00:12 Hello, Fire Service Southsdog, can you hear me?
00:16 [Wind]
00:22 Okay then Steve, can you just tell me a bit about the sort of work which Frankie is trained to be involved in then please?
00:28 So Frankie is trained for search and rescue for missing people, major structural collapse and major transport incidents.
00:35 And how much of a valued member of the team is she being?
00:38 She's invaluable, the service that the dogs bring and the time and effort that it saves the team when they're finding and locating casualties is priceless.
00:45 She can find somebody in minutes as it could take the team hours if not days.
00:49 How does she actually go about finding someone, what's she looking to detect?
00:52 So Frankie is trained, she's a live sentencing search dog so it's literally your exhale breath, so she's looking for casualties that are trapped or entombed in the rubble or in an open area field or woods.
01:02 She's looking for the live scent, the exhale breath.
01:05 So why is she retiring?
01:06 Because she's reached a certain age, she's a seven year old, not supposed to give a lady's age and she's also got hip dysplasia as well so that's the main reason is the hip dysplasia.
01:14 So she can't work anymore.
01:16 What's she going to be doing in her retirement then?
01:18 Slip her on, up the caravan and take nice long chilled out walks.
01:21 Is she going to be part of your family?
01:23 She'll be a part of the family definitely, yeah. One of the kids.
01:27 [wind]