The Washington County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team recently accepted a donation that will help reestablish its K-9 program.
ST. GEORGE — The Washington County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team recently accepted a donation that will help reestablish its K-9 program
Gathered at the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Hurricane on Aug. 2, the search and rescue team was presented with a $15,000 check from the Dixie Elks Charitable Foundation. The funding will provide a jump-start to the county's efforts in bringing back what Sgt. Darrell Cashin called a "needful asset."
"We have found that by going back through our rescues over the last several years, about 40% of the time we could have used a really good K-9 to help find people," Cashin said. Cashin later told St. George News that the search and rescue team had a trained K-9 and handler as one of its volunteers for a time, but that ended when the volunteer moved away over three years ago.
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