Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, Inc., was formed to provide all of the skills and teamwork necessary to bring the best resources, K9’s and personnel to your Search and Rescue mission. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing immediate call-out status to the southeast United States.

Alpha Team is an advanced response team with the capabilities and willingness to respond to all types of search and rescue emergencies. Our teams can provide incident command, navigational support, radio operations, ground searchers, mantracking, and highly trained K9 search and rescue specialist teams for your urban, wilderness and water search operations. Our search team does not charge for its services and will respond at no cost for all types of search emergencies.

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Here is one of the more unique ones…. helping detect old burial sites !

Below is a link to the original article from the Avondale Burial Place Project Website:

http://www.newsouthassoc.com/avondale/Archaeology.html

Alpha Team is a highly capable, professional response team with the experience and willingness to respond to all types of search and rescue emergencies. Our teams can provide air scent and trailing dogs and handler teams, mantracking, incident command, navigational expertise, radio communications, ground searchers, and search and rescue specialist teams for your urban, wilderness and water search operations. Alpha Team K9 SAR (ATSAR) does not charge for its services and will respond at no cost for all types of search emergencies.

For emergency call-outs only, please contact:

Paula Chambers, ATSAR President

770-855-3633 (cell)

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Georgia law enforcement officers now have one more reason to learn about Alzheimer’s disease: the dangers of wandering and the Alzheimer’s Association’s Safe Return Program.

As of this past October, officers will be able to receive continuing education credit for classes taught by chapter staff and certified volunteers. Safe Return Program directors and volunteers recently completed a special curriculum designed by Georgia Safe Return Coordinator Alice Hoffmann and approved by P.O.S.T., the Peace Officers Standards Training. P.O.S.T. is the continuing education credit that law enforcement officers are required to receive each year.“More law enforcement officers will be more willing to take this essential training now that they can receive credit for it,” Hoffmann said.“The law enforcement training is so crucial.”

A total of 14 people attended the Safe Return training seminar to become certified instructors. They are: Alice Hoffmann (Atlanta regional office), Laurie Parker (North Georgia regional office), Tracy Ford (Macon regional office), Nancy Goode (Albany regional office), Carrie Valentine (Augusta regional office), Jenny House (Savannah regional office), Paula Chambers (ATSAR), Susie Braswell (ATSAR), Kelli Jablonski (ATSAR), Pam Nyberg (ATSAR), Kathy Simpson (Volunteer), John Thames (Atlanta regional office), Vice President of Chapter Services and Public Policy Ginny Helms, Christina Semple (Atlanta regional office) and Sarah Carson (Atlanta regional office).

Safe Return earns a new Badge of Honor today since there have been more cases of missing persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Attendees will definitely find this training helpful in their day-to-day routines. The day-long seminar and “Train the Trainer” session included several wellknown speakers. Stuart Samples, the President of ATSAR (Alpha Team Search and Rescue), presented information on search and rescue techniques and when to call for a K-9 search team. He also did a short demonstration on how search dogs and team members work in unison. Private investigator and retired FBI agent, Harold Copus, outlined search strategies and talked about what each office needs to have readily available in the event of a missing person.

–Alzheimer’s Association’s Safe Return Program™

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This camp has been able to positively affect hundreds of Georgia kids with inherited bleeding disorders for nearly 15 years. Alpha Team members came out in force allowing the childeren to see and touch their SAR K9′s and to be found by them in live demonstrations. Everyone had a great time and it was an honor to be asked to be presenters at this amazing event!

The Hug-A-Tree and Survive Program was started in San Diego, California after a search occurred for a nine-year old boy who became lost in the local mountains. A group of searchers put together a program for children on “how not to get lost in the woods, how to stay comfortable if they do get lost, and how to be spotted and found.”

The Hug-A-Tree and Survive program is owned by NASAR (National Association of Search and Rescue) and is taught throughout the country to children in Kindergarten through Eighth grade. The presentation of this program is a non-profit venture to help better educate the public and especially children on preventative search and rescue techniques.

To learn more, or to request a Hug-A-Tree presentation at your school or facility, please contact Certified Hug-A-Tree Instructor, Susie Braswell at beispb@aol.com.