After a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Italy and left hundreds of people dead, one 8-year-old girl went missing and her family feared they would never see her alive again.
For 16 hours following the earthquake, there was no sign of the little girl named Georgia, who was in her home at the time. In order to better search for Georgia and others who were unaccounted for, the local emergency responders brought teams of canine sniffer dogs like a German Shepherd named Sarotti and a black Labrador Retriever named Leo to help look.
Even though they could see or hear anyone under the rubble, the teams hoped the dogs would be able to sniff people out since dogs have about 125 million to 300 million scent glands than humans. And just seconds after letting Leo search for Georgia, he was able to find her scent and lead rescuers to her.
“This is Leo, the four-and-a-half-year-old labrador from the search and rescue team of Pescara who found little Georgia yesterday,” officers Matteo and Liborio said. “Yesterday we were given the information that under a two-story collapsed house in Pescara del Tronto there were two missing girls. Immediately we went to the location and Leo, in less than 40 seconds, gave us a strong signal.
“With our colleagues from the Reparto Mobile Senigallia and the firemen, we dug with our bare hands for nine hours, and at the end we were able to find the girl.”
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Dog Finds Girl Trapped Under Rubble 16 Hours After Earthquake is an article from: LifeDaily