Salerno
5th birthday party for Ben, the four-legged firefighter of the dog unit serving at the Salerno command.
Patented on 9 July 2021, after a 10-month course, in the midst of which its handler Giuseppe had to personally pass quizzes, together they passed obedience and gym (obstacle) tests. Subsequently the second step began with the first approach to surface and rubble searches.
At the end of the 10 months, quizzes and the first exam consisted of a surface search simulation while for the second test a simulation of a collapse with a person under the rubble.
Ben and Giuseppe, among other things, intervened for the collapse of a house on 3 January 2022 in the municipality of Afragola, fortunately without victims, in Ischia during the flood on 26 November 2022, as well as for the collapse of the building in Torre del Greco where a live girl was extracted on 17 July 2023. On this last occasion Ben carried out three searches to exclude other victims under the rubble.
To date it has more than 50 surface research interventions. A pride and a heritage to be safeguarded for the Fire Brigade.
