Class: Intermediate / Advanced HRD

Donna Sanford

Donna Sanford has been a dog handler in the Riverside area since 1999. She is POST Certified in NASAR SAR Tech II, Mantracking, and Managing the Lost Person Incident. She is an 18 year veteran K9 handler with Riverside County Search Dogs (RCSD) and California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA). She has served on the Board of Directors for both organizations serving in various positions including President, Vice President and Treasurer of CARDA. She has deployed on more than 100 missions with her dogs certified in Area - Air Scent, HRD/Cadaver, and Water, as well as, serving as a flanker to other teams in the field. Donna Sanford is an educator by career, teaching for over 25 years in the Temecula Valley Unified School District and in Escondido Union School Districts in special education and more recently in general education.

Steve Sanford

Steve Sanford has been a dog handler in the Riverside area since 1999. He is POST Certified in NASAR SAR Tech II, and Mantracking. He is an 18 year veteran K9 handler with Riverside County Search Dogs (RCSD) and California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA). He has served on the Board of Directors with RCSD serving in various positions including President, Member at Large, Secretary and Treasurer. He has deployed on more than 50 missions with his dogs certified in Area, and HRD/Cadaver, as well as, serving as a flanker to other teams in the field. Steve Sanford has worked in the automotive industry by career for over 30 years, managing Witt Lincoln in San Diego for the past 16 years.

Trish Moutard

Trish Moutard has been a dog handler in SAR since 1992. Since 1992 she has trained 7 dogs to Mission Ready status in various disciplines including Area, Basic Urban Disaster, Water, Cadaver and Firearms detection. She was the K9 unit leader for Butte County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue for over 10 years and has served on the board of CARDA as well as BCSAR. She has deployed as a K9 handler on over 100 missions in several counties in CA, and has also served as Dog Ops on numerous searches. She has taught, among other SAR K9 related classes, Dog Ops for Search Managers, Clue Awareness, and Flanker Skills for Dog Teams. In her paid profession, she is an RVT with the San Diego Humane Society, serving as the Medical Supervisor for their North Campus. She is currently training her 8th dog in Area and Cadaver.

Years teaching this class: Donna, Steve, and Trish have been teaching this class for the past 6-7 years.

Relevance of this class to search and rescue:

Classroom Portion 1 hour in tent

There will be a short classroom portion prior to entering the field and will discuss a variety of search conditions that can affect your dogs behavior and final trained indication as well as answer questions before and after the field portion if possible.

Field Portion 3 hours in Field

In this course we will discuss human remains detection with handlers who have been working with human remains detection for some time and have deployed on a number of searches. Dogs must have a final trained response that is independently and consistently produced without prompting. We will set-up outdoor problems and possibly some indoor problems. These problems will be in a variety of locations around the SAREX venue in a variety of situations.

**Note: Dogs currently deploying in the field preferred Observers without dogs are welcome.