Rescuers use a sniffer dog during a search operation at the ruins of a building collapsed after an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on January 18, 2021. #

Lek, a golden retriever from the Thai K9 Rescue unit, is brought to comfort people waiting for news of missing loved ones at the site of an under-construction building collapse in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 1, 2025, four days after an earthquake struck central Myanmar and Thailand. #

A volunteer with the Italian School of Rescue Dogs (La Scuola Italiana Cani Salvataggio) jumps with a dog during a water-rescue training session at Averno Lake in Pozzuoli, Italy, on October 24, 2024. #

Rescuers deploy a sniffing dog to search for survivors, as dozens of people are believed to have been trapped in the rubble of a collapsed high-rise building that was still under construction, after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck neighboring country Myanmar, in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 29, 2025. #

A search-and-rescue worker, looking for Camp Fire victims, carries Susie Q to safety after the sniffer dog fell through rubble at the Holly Hills Mobile Estates on November 14, 2018, in Paradise, California. #

Tullla, a four-year-old Labrador, gets a bath after working in the Pacific Palisades on January 17, 2025. Search-and-rescue dogs from the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation were deployed to assist after wildfires decimated parts of California. #

A search-and-rescue dog named Maca, with the Turkish Gendarmerie General Command, takes part in skydiving training at Sivrihisar Aviation Center in the Sivrihisar district of Eskişehir, Turkey, on October 12, 2023. #

Disaster-response workers with a sniffer dog conduct a search operation after a child reportedly fell into a stormwater drain following heavy rainfall at Jyoti Nagar in Guwahati, India, on July 5, 2024. #

A monument to a rescue dog named Proteo is unveiled at Marte Military Field, in Mexico City, on September 21, 2023. Proteo, one of the search-and-rescue dogs deployed to Turkey with a team from Mexico to help to find victims of the 2023 earthquake, died while on the job, after finding at least two trapped people. #

A rescue worker and his search dog prepare to be lifted in the bucket of an excavator, searching for survivors at the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the Hotel Saratoga in Old Havana, Cuba, on May 8, 2022. #

A member of an all-female group of canine rescuers from the Italian School of Rescue Dogs (La Scuola Italiana Cani Salvataggio) attends a training session with her dog before patrolling the beach to ensure swimmers can enjoy their time at the sea in safety, in Riva dei Tarquini, near Rome, Italy, on August 25, 2020. #

A volunteer firefighter hugs a dog during the search for victims of an eruption of the Fuego Volcano in Alotenango, a municipality in Sacatepequez Department, Guatemala, on June 6, 2018. #