Advanced HRD/Recovery 2024 training NE PA

Name: Advanced HRD/Recovery 2024 training NE PA
Start: 2024-11-15T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-17T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Monroe County Public Safety Training Center

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 05:00 pm to Sun Nov 17 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Monroe County Public Safety Training Center | Stroudsburg, PA

Advanced HRD/RECOVERY Search Dog Training 2024
Nov 15 thru 17 2024 at the Monroe County Fire Training Center and surrounding sites. 100 Gypsum Rd Stroudsburg, PA 18360
Presented by Rescue International PA SARRT and Specialty K9 Search and Recovery
K9 Team is $350 one dog only, Observer $225
You MUST attend registration and class Friday to attend Saturday and Sunday sessions. There is a limit of 20 Handler/K9 teams and 10 observers.
Nov 15.16.17, 2024 - Monroe County Fire School, 100 Gypsum Rd Stroudsburg PA
This will be a 20-hour training with classroom learning and lots of time working with your dog in advanced Scent Theory, Advanced HRD/Recovery, scenarios include Building Search, Fire, Basic Collapse, SAT Night OPS, Buried, Basic Water station, K9/Handler Decontamination with fire company. Classroom scent theory and advanced K9 operational theory. Some areas will have active firefighters in full PPE, fire trucks and equipment running, loud noises. You MUST attend classroom and registration Friday night to attend Saturday and Sunday sessions. There is a limit of 20 Handler/K9 teams and 10 observers.
Our three lead instructors have well over 100 years combined experience and hundreds of finds. Additional experienced handlers and staff volunteers will help make this a great experience.
COST: K9/Handler Team is $350, one dog only, Observer 3 days $225. No refunds, but substitute attendee welcome or we can refer you to a person from the waiting list as available.
Attendees: Bring your coffee and morning break, snack with you. Lunch is provided. Microwave and vending machines are available. Bottled Water provided and filtered well water on site. Convenience store by entrance.
Come prepared like it’s a major search or disaster. FULL PPE for all aspects listed should be with you, i.e.: Gloves, boots or hiking footwear required, no shorts. USAR level protected boots are not required, bring them if you have them. A Day pack may be handy as some areas are remote from the complex but nearby. Gloves, flashlights and helmet with headlamp are required for work inside the Fire Building and/or Night Ops. PFD not required.
Handlers should have SAR field training like NASAR SARTECH II minimum and Canine SARTECH Handler training or equivalents along with operational experience. Your K9 MUST have a readable HRD indication. You and your K9 must be working at a minimum operational level of Novice (Advanced Basic) to an intermediate level K9 team, to be considered. Your seat will be confirmed, and additional detailed info will be provided on approval.
Your payment will be handled through PAYPAL , no account is needed. PO's or team/agency payments contact us. With your registration you agree to release all photo, video and audio recording rights to Rescue International for PR and training purposes. A compilation video will be available online to attendees by invitation.
Schedule: Friday-5PM to 8:30, Saturday 8AM to 4:00, Dinner as a group, 5PM Private room order off menu at the Restaurant (4 miles away) or on your own. Saturday Night Ops 6:30 to 9:00, Sunday 8AM to 4:00. Your certificate of training is based on the 20 hours, so please plan on this schedule.
Registration link https://rescueintl.wufoo.com/forms/z1joggqp087nuak/
By submitting this registration, you are entering into a contract and agree that you will hold harmless, Rescue International Inc and Specialty K9 Search and Recovery. Inc, County of Monroe and associated organizations, instructors, and property owners of areas used during the class. Details and info about lodging/camping will be provided on registration or inquiry.
NOTES
THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER CLASS please check back for other opportunities. We are not here to test, but to train and educate. We will expose you to new, challenging and complex scenarios that involve problem solving. You will gain valuable experience under real world conditions. This is not forensic level training and K9’s will be exposed to large source materials; however, we will have some low threshold and aged sources at certain stations for Foundation Training.
One dog per handler! Observers will be held to the same requirements as Handlers if they are entering a hot zone and only with the Handlers permission.
Bring your own refreshments on Friday and for each morning, convenience store by entrance and bring any special needs with you, ice water bottles on site, microwave and vending machines are available in the building. Canine cooling station and decontamination available as needed. Our Staff commercial photographer will be on site. If you want additional pictures of you and your K9 partner, there is a charge of $20 for the weekend and your pictures will be available to you online. Certificates of completion will be emailed to all participants within 7 days.
PPE and things to bring: Helmet, light, eye protection and gloves are required for general building access, fire burn pile area and many other stations as stated above.
Boots steel tip recommended, Construction or Rescue Helmet, Eye protection, Knee pads suggested, Headlight and/ or flashlight, work gloves and protective exam gloves. Please be equipped as you would for searching under varied and sometimes difficult conditions.
CANINE: K9’s must always be under control with 6 ft to 20 ft maximum leashes except in areas were instructed that they can be off lead at a station. Appropriate collars and ID vests can be worn (we suggest no vest or collar while working outdoor burn pile and debris pile) Main training areas are fenced from traffic.
CANINE: We have strict attendee behavior guidelines: If your K9 causes unreasonable distraction to the training’s operation, shows aggressive behavior or if your K9 mouths / eats a source, urinates or defecates on source you will be asked to leave the training, at the discretion of the training staff. You MAY be able to continue as an observer. No refunds will be issued. Use of Bladder control devices ie: K9 belly band or diaper should be considered if this is a known issue. Bitches “in season” will not be permitted to attend.
LEAD INSTRUCTOR BIO’s

Robert Langendoen
Bob started in SAR, in 1978 with the NJ Forest Fire Service and as a Charter Member of NJSAR. He then began a lifelong career in K9 SAR with the American Rescue Dog Association (ARDA, NJ) where he responded to searches from Maine to Puerto Rico with that Team. Today, he is a founder and Vice President of Specialty K9 Search and Recovery Team as well as a K9 Handler and Trainer. He and Specialty K9 Search and Recovery work closely with Teams in NY, NJ and PA and have hosted numerous HRD Workshops and Water Trainings. He has testified in court as an expert witness, is a writer and has been a speaker at National Conferences (NASAR, SR/DR) and State Conferences (NY Federation of SAR). He has been a guest speaker on Fox News, Animal Planet and interviewed by former FBI Profiler Candice Delonge on her radio program Crime Time. While the book and podcast “Unearthing a Serial Killer” details his work on a nationally reported case in New York State, he has been referenced in numerous books about dogs and several which speak directly to his service in K9 Search and Rescue throughout the years including recovery work after 9/11 at the Freshkills Landfill.
With his Team, he continues to instruct, train, evaluate and mentor K9 Handlers and Teams through Classroom and Field Trainings along with numerous searches, finds and “cold cases” in between.

Bruce Barton
Bruce is a veteran of SAR, starting in high school in the 70s and he has been working with dogs since the early 80s, he started working his first SAR dog in the late 80’s. He has been a life member and past board member of NASAR since the 80’s and had the honor to work and train with many of the foremost handlers in the country in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. He was the K9 team operations officer for the OFDA response to the Armenia earthquake in 1988 and he worked the NY state Thruway bridge collapse and the L’Ambiance Plaza building collapse in 1987, Bruce did his first K9 water searches in the late 80’s along with Carolyn Hebard a RI co-founder. He was the founding member of both NESAR and is the current chief of PA Search and Rescue Recovery Teams.
Bruce was the team leader for Rescue International’s Canine Recovery Task Force at the 9/11 Fresh Kills landfill, canine recovery operations, under NYPD and FBI. He later was the RI CRTF team coordinator and handler for Katrina HRD/Recovery operations in the Gulf Coast for two and half months, under 3 LA state EMAC requests, working with 14 CRTF K9 teams and support crews. He searched for Natalie Hollaway in Aruba focusing on the landfill. Bruce has been training canines for over 40 years and has authored and published multiple SAR HRD/Recovery and water search K9 training programs, with manuals and videos. He has contributed to the SAR/Recovery subjects in many related publications. He has presented at regional and national conferences and training seminars over the past 35 years. He teaches training classes on water rescue, K9 SAR, Search and Rescue management and SAR/Disaster communications.
Bruce has well over 100, K9 finds over the careers of his five SAR partners including many trailing, air scent, water recovery, HRD, cold case and at 6 major disaster recovery operations. He has coordinated hundreds of searches as Search Manager with dozens of K9 finds during those missions. His current partner Dallas is operational in HRD and Water search.

Sue Lavoie
Sue is a seasoned handler, with 40 years of dog training, search and rescue, and scent detection experience. She is currently the training director and secretary for SpecialtyK9 Search and Recovery and former Vice Chair of NYS Federation of Search and Rescue Teams. Since 1986, Sue has operated and certified 8 search dogs in the disciplines of Area/Wide Area Search, Human Remains Detection, Water Recovery. She has assisted innumerous recoveries throughout her SAR career, including recoveries in Fresh Kills landfill during 9/11. Sue has been a professional dog trainer since 1981 and a bed bug detection dog handler for over a decade. Her SAR and dog training experience has been sought after as an instructor for a variety of national seminars and has been featured in several publications, Sue and her current working partner, Willie, is certified as NASAR Canine SARTECH HRD Land-Type III, and AWDA Wilderness Human Remains Detection (HRD)- Land Type III.