From Our Own Correspondent: Rescuing Dogs to Rescue People
Zeb Soanes learns of a group which trains dogs to save human lives after natural disasters and explosions - and meets its founder, Wilma Melville, in California.
A special essay from Zeb Soanes in California. Wilma Melville is a former physical-education teacher who was moved to try and help in the search for survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. Since then she's raised millions of thousands of dollars to fund the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, which trains dogs to find and rescue people amid the wreckage of natural disasters and terror attacks. They've worked in the ruins of the World Trade Centre after 9/11 and the shattered cities of Nepal this year. What has driven her along this extraordinary journey?
Photo: One of the dogs Wilma Melville has trained working with a handler to seek out survivors of the earthquakes in Nepal, April 2015. (c) National Disaster Search Dog Foundation
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- Thu 9 Jul 2015 16:20GMT大象传媒 World Service Online