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Causes: Disaster Aid, Search & Rescue Squads
Mission: To be the recognized leader and preferred provider to requesting agencies, by delivering unequaled services through our highly skilled and trained team of professionals with total commitment to integrity, excellence, and the public we serve.
Results: From our inception, we have responded to hundreds of searches. We have been to calls all over the East Coast and provide search and rescue resources as well as recovery resources. Our volunteers pay out of pocket to respond to these searches which have resulted in saving lives of lost children and adults, recovery of a deceased and missing loved ones and the resolution of criminal cases against victims. We can't do it without you. We do it because we love helping our community.
Target demographics: Furnish highly trained volunteer sonar, dive and search dog teams for search.
Direct beneficiaries per year: missing victims and their loved ones by responding to over 30 missing person searches.
Geographic areas served: North Carolina and surrounding states
Programs: Training and promoting the working dog for search missions, and supports evaluations for search dogs. NC K9 E.R.T. provides highly skilled search teams 24 hours a day, responds to requests from Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Fire Departments or other Official requesting agencies, during natural or man-made disasters, drownings, and lost or missing persons in urban and wilderness settings, at no cost to the requesting agency. In addition, NC K9 E.R.T. works to promote understanding and public awareness of the role of search dogs and to further the public knowledge, interest and use of search and rescue trained dogs through public demonstrations and lectures to state and local agencies, schools, civic organizations, retirement and rest homes.