Crime & Safety
Bay Area First Responders And K9s Deployed To Texas To Assist With Disaster Recovery
Brandon Bond, a K9 search specialist, and Labrador Kylo are part of a rigorous team of first responders making up this FEMA task force.
July 15, 2025
Local Bay Area first responders have been deployed to Texas to assist with disaster recovery after the devastating floods over the Fourth of July weekend.
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"We have a mission-ready package, which is a smaller makeup of the team. We have two dogs that are trained to detect human remains. They're both labradors," Brandon Bond, a K9 search specialist with the California Urban Search & Rescue Team Task Force 3, told CBS News Bay Area.
Bond works with his Labrador Retriever, Kylo, every day. His K9 is a FEMA-certified type-one disaster dog, trained to detect live human scent.
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