[Explanation] With the trainer's order, the search and rescue dog raised its ears alertly, started quickly, ran, passed the obstacles, and went straight to the target.
Recently, the reporter walked into the special service brigade of Jilin Province Forest Fire Brigade and saw that the autumn training of search and rescue dogs is being intensively carried out.
As a "speaking retrograde", search and rescue dogs always appear in people's field of vision at the most dangerous moment, and undertake emergency search and rescue tasks at various disaster sites.
Together with firefighters, they race against time to catch the breath of life with their noses on the rubble and in the flames.
[Concurrent] Instructor Yang Shuai
The main work, the firefighting part, is to search for people or hot odor sources, because hot odor sources represent living human bodies, so that is to say, some searches in our ruins or in the wild.
[Commentary] Yang Shuai is the squad leader of the First Squadron of the Special Service Brigade of the Jilin Forest Fire Corps, and the trainer of the search and rescue dog Bingo.
He introduced that there are now six search and rescue dogs in the Special Service Brigade of Jilin Province Forest Fire Brigade, including Malinois, Golden Retriever and other breeds.
These six search and rescue dogs are a team, and they need to work together to play the biggest role in actual combat.
[Concurrent] Instructor Yang Shuai
In earthquake operations, a dog cannot be used as a confirmation point, and many dogs are required to confirm a point.
A dog can't prove anything, because it may produce some false positives, but if two, three, or four all bark or warn at this point, it means that there is a living person underneath.
[Explanation] It is not easy to train a qualified search and rescue dog.
In addition to using the unique functions of dogs, strict training is also required on dogs' obedience, attention, and durability.
At the same time, search and rescue dogs have high work enthusiasm when performing tasks, and can quickly adapt to various unknown environments.
[Concurrent] Instructor Yang Shuai
Every day starts with some basic subjects, such as some interaction between people and dogs, and then some basic training for dogs, such as obedience, and then some search subjects and application subjects, and then take the dog in the afternoon. Some physical fitness, running obstacles, pulling endurance and jumping ability.
[Explanation] It is understood that in order to select excellent search and rescue dogs, a competition will be held in Jilin Province next year.
In order to achieve good results on the field, the trainers have carefully formulated future training plans and strived to improve the ability of the six search and rescue dogs to a higher level.
[Concurrent] Instructor Yang Shuai
This winter, we will train more in applied subjects, searching in the wild, searching for boxes, and then searching for ruins.
Zhang Mohan reports from Changchun
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]