Waldorf Auxiliary Blood Drive Dates for 2010 are
Ocotber 11th and December 13th. These will be held at
Fire Station 3 from 12:00pm-6:00pm.

Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary & Station 12
FALL FESTIVAL CAR and CRAFT SHOW

Announcing the
Waldorf Volunteer Fire Dept
Trailing K9 Special Operations Team

Chief Dan Stevens recently announced that the Department had added a K9 Search and Rescue Special Operations Team to their response capability. The WVFD K9 Special Operations team is available to work with first responders and local law enforcement to educate them on the scent specific trailing abilities of bloodhounds,
and to help them understand the wide variety of situations in which this capability can be used with great success.

A bloodhound trailing team, consisting of a canine and handler, is a very effective resource for locating missing Alzheimer patients, nursing home or group home walk-aways, missing children, victims of depression who have gone missing, or crash victims who have been ejected from the vehicle. It is important to consider the Bloodhound as a "first response" resource in a search situation.

Bloodhounds wear a chest harness and are under leash at all times. Bloodhounds work from an uncontaminated scent article of the missing person and the point last seen. They are capable of detecting and following a specific scent many hours and even days after the person's disappearance, across varied terrains and in most weather conditions, day or night. Bloodhounds have the greatest scent processing and trailing ability of all canine breeds. Scent specific K9 trailing teams are often used during searches as a compliment to K9 area search teams.

The assets and capabilities of the new WVFD K9 SAR Special Ops team include: 1 trailing bloodhound and 2 handlers, 1 bloodhound puppy, expected to be ready to deploy in late 2010, 1 4WD vehicle, 2 Search Managers: trained in SAR incident command, NASAR MLPI qualified, NASAR SarTech II, ICS 100, 200, 700, 800, and Crime scene preservation.