“It helps you feel like you’re part of that system of trying to bring closure and help people find their loved ones,” said Olivia’s handler, Julie Kirk-Purcell.
Olivia and Mazie, a pair of experienced detection dogs from the Orange County-based Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 5, have journeyed to Maui along with their local handlers to help in the massive recovery efforts followingOlivia, a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois, and Mazie, a six-and-a-half-year-old Black Lab, are being joined by their handlers and search team members, 48-year-old Eric Darling and 58-year-old Julie Kirk-Purcell.
and the North Complex fire in Butte County in 2020. So has Olivia, who turns 10 next month, and has worked the 2022 Hurricane Ian disaster in Florida and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Division. “Unfortunately, I and many of the other handlers deployed have had far too many of these types of deployments. However, we know what to look for and how to work the areas,” Darling said.2018 Camp Fire in Paradise
Purcell, an art professor at Irvine Valley College, said her interest in search and rescue began after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. After starting with a local search team and completing the necessary FEMA training, she has been a part of the Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 5 for about nine years.
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