TTT K9′s very own Pam Medhurst received the Life Saving Award today from Sheriff Gore and Under Sheriff Cook.
On June 29, 2011 Search and Rescue was called to look for a missing elderly man who had become disoriented. He managed to make an initial cell phone call saying that he fell after his car got stuck, but did not know where he was. I was deployed with my dog ” Snickers” to his car. When we arrived the temp. was over 110 and the ground was so hot , my dogs pads were burning. I made the decision to keep him safely in the shade and with my partner, we tracked the missing subject . We began to find his belongings that he had dropped and his clothes that he had taken off. We located him down a very steep hill where he had fallen. He was very dehydrated . Our team was called and together we put him on a backboard and transported him to a safe location where the helicopter was able to make a hoist rescue. - Pam Medhusrt