12-15.02.2009.
Check out our 4-day show at the Hungexpo! Photos, Video
06.02.2009.
We have a new feature in the menu, it is called 'videos' and lets you get more familiar with our work.
01.01.2009.
We wish a successful and peaceful Happy New Year to everybody!
23.12.2008
We would like to take this opportunity to wish our friends, colleagues and partners a happy and peaceful holiday season!
29.11.2008.
Success in exams! Our team participated on a BH exam in the Budafok Dog
School. We succeded in taking four BH1, five BH2 and one BH3 exams. We
thank for the opportunity to the organizers. Photos
01-02.11.2008.
We held an exercise show in Budapest, on a big area which is under
destruction. The show was held to Csoport 1 and the students of the
Firefighter School of the Budapest Fire Department Headquarter.
02-05.10.2008
Swiss Open: we have a rated search dog again! Our team leader, as the
leader of the Rescue Dog Service of the Budapest Headquarter of the
Fire Departments has won the 2nd place with her dog Kuba, on the
special competition of the service dogs in Switzerland. Info, photos
05.10.2008.
Zsuzsanna Löcher M.D, our team's doctor has given a presentation about
our work, at the charity wine festival held in the Vajdahunyad Castle,
to support the Minimenhely Foundation.
05.10.2008.
On the occasion of the World Animal Day we held a show at one of
Budapest's biggest Organizations for Animal Protection, on the animal
island of the Rex Dog Foundation.
29.09.2008.
Photos from the Huromex 2008 exercise.
25.09.2008.
Here are the photos from the Terror Prevention Conference held in Berlin.
21-26.09.2008.
Preview: four members from our team will participate on the Hunorex 2008 exercise: our Team Leader as qualifying judge, two team members as rescue dog leaders and one team member as medical doctor. Info
16-20.09.2008.
On behalf of the Headquarters of the Fire Departments of Budapest our Team Leader will participate on the Terror Prevention Conference in Berlin.
12.09.2008.
We participated on the 1st International Rescue Show organized by the DM Fire and Technical Rescue Team. Photos, Info
14.09.2008.
This week's tip: We are going to do a show on the Law Enforcement Festival in Kőbánya (Óhegy Park).
11.09.2008.
Judit Szlivon, one of the dog handlers from our team and also the Explosive ordnance disposal technician of the Hungarian Army, has returned home after 6 months of service in Afghanistan. Photos
07.09.2008.
Click here for the photos from today's show.
06.09.2008.
While preparing for the upcoming exams in autumn we had a training in the Rescue Dog School in Jászberény. We thank the opportunity for the team in Jászberény!
07.09.2008.
We will give a show to help the organ transplanted children. The show will take place on 7 September, from 14:00 til 18:00. Info
31.08.2008.
We finished at the 1st place again! With our most experienced team members we won the 1st place on the 1st FCI Rescue Dog World Championship. Photos
29-31.08.2008.
Four members of our team will participate on the FCI Rescue Dog World Championship in Zatec, Czech Republic. Info
24.08.2008.
Our team members have participated on an Obedience Session in Kisnémedi. Info
23.08.2008.
We had a rescue dog show on the city festival in Halásztelek.
18.08.2008.
Our team members have participated on the Clicker Session held by Merit Jaehne in Kisnémedi.
17.08.2008.
Show held in Százhalombatta
The members of our team made a successfull show on the exhibition of the MEOE Organization of Érd.
20.07.2008.
Tököl, training field. We held a rescue dog workshop to the rescue dog handlers who had visited us from USA.
20.07.2008.
Budapest, Course I. We have participated in the presentation about the dog's ability to learn and the theory about the clicker trainings. The presentation was held by Rudolf Homig, one of the main representatives of this specialty. Thanks a lot for the opportunity!
30.06.-06.07.2008.
One two 8-year-old dogs succesfully participated in the 14th Search & Rescue Dogs World Championship, by having been ranked #7 and #14 and having passed the rescue dog exam. Results, Photos
30.06.-06.07.2008.
14. Search&Rescue Dogs World Championship - Samobor, Croatia
19-22.06.2008.
One of our team's doctors, Julia cristofari participated in the Emergency and Trauma Management Exercise in Kurow, Poland Info
15.06.2008.
We had our training in a building of a Budapest print- house which is under demolition. We thank the SOS Rescue Dog Association for the organization. Photos
10.06.2008.
Upon the request of the Headquarter of the Fire Department of Budapest we participated in research for persons lost building collapse. Photos 1, 2, 3
07.06.2008.
We keep on developing our new training field; we started to put the field under grass and to equip the training building. The Főnix Special Ambulance Team, three members of the rescue dog team from Kassa and a firefigther friend with his wife have worked and trained with us. We thank them for their help! Photos
05.06.2008.
Dr. Löcher Zsuzsanna, who is both the medical doctor of our team and the medical doctor of the Hungary Army, has returned home from the national mission to Afghanistan. Photos
01.06.2008.
On the Day of the Dog Owners in Budapest we made a show recorded by more television channels. Video
30.05.-01.06.2008.
Semyr, a young dog of our team has succesfully passed the advanced ruin search exam with the result of 199/200 points in Austria, on the ruin of last year's Rescue Dog World Chanpionship. Photos
24.05.2008.
We held a rescue dog show at the 100th Anniversary of the Voluntary Fire Fighting Team in Pilisvörösvár. Photos
24.05.2008.
We kindly invite everybody to our next rescue dog show, which will take place 24 May, at 13 o'clock on the Fire Fighting Festival in Pilisvörösvár.
19-22.05.2008.
Ready-to-go to China II. A doctor from our team was a member of the health rescue team delegated to China by the National Disaster Management. Unfortunately the team was not deployed due to reasons related to foreign affairs.
17.05.2008.
We are pleased to have found a permanent training field: for long term we can customize an abandonned building at the Tököl airport for human search, and the open ruin field of a destroyed building will be available for our dog trainings as well. These fields are useful not only for us, because also all the rescue dog teams which cooperate with us will be welcome on our common trainings. Photos
17.05.2008.
Three rescue dog teams, recognised dy the National Disaster Management Service and being on standby due to the earthquake in China, have held a mutual training for person research in Budapest, on the burnt out and prtially destroyed field of the textile factory of Kőbánya. The total of 20 members from the Rescue Dog Association of Jászberény, the S.O.S. Rescue Dog Association and the Pannon Canine Search and Rescue Team participated in the research training by night.
12-14.05.2008.
In case China accepts the help, a rescue team of 12 persons will depart to give help to the country hit by the earthquake. Upon the request of the National Disaster Management Service we have 3 rescue dog leaders ready to be able go with the team which is planned to replace the first rescue team.
10-11.05.2008.
We did our training in real-life circumstances, in a factory building which was burnt out in a fire and is partially destroyed. The research work of the dogs was made more difficult by the dark at night, the generators, the lights, the unknown people and the technically challenging hidings.We thank the Cantoni Kőbányai Textil Kft. for letting us do the training on their property and the Generalconto Kft. for the technical support. Photos
05.05.2008.
In the last four days we participated in different Fire Fighting Festivals with Rescue Dog Shows. Photos 1, 2, 3 ,4
19-20.04.2008.
Craiova (RO), rescue dog test. Photos
15.04.2008.
We are sorry to inform you that this year's Pannon Rescue Dog Exam and Competition will not be held due to lack of judges. However we really hope that everybody will find a solution for where to pass the spring exams and of course we wish good luck to all of you.
The date of the 2009 Pannon Rescue Dog Exam and Competition: April 3-5, 2009. The planned judges are Christiane Geritzer (A), Gut Martin (CH) and Alfons Fieseler (D). More details and information are expected to be communicated in January 2009. If you would like to know more, please contact us via e-mail at info@pkkm.org
01.04.2008.
As requested by the Police Department, we helped in search for lost person in Sokoropatka. Photos
29.03.2008.
We participated again in a successful training at the Rescue Dog School of the Jászberény Rescue Dog Association. We thank Gábor Szabó and the Association for continuously giving us the opportunity to do trainings on their field. Photos
06.03.2008.
Photos of the mountain-rescue course are available here.
24.02.2008.
Our compulsory cave tour was held in Cave Mátyáshegyi
Photos
14-17.02.2008.
Our 4-day Rescue Dog Show at Hungexpo was seen by almost 20000 visitors.
Photos
02-10.02.2008.
We have been participating in a mountain-rescue course in Arieseni, Romania with 9 men, 15 dogs. Report is coming soon!
21.01.2008.
We arranged that in the winter months we can regularly organize trainings in in-door sports-ground with artificial turf and lights. Thus we can practice obedience and dexterity independently from weather. Our preparations to the tests' field-work is much more efficient.
14.01.2008.
The english version of our page has been launched. We are keeping on uploading.
12.01.2008.
Our new, easily transportable, adjustable obstacles have been made. Thanks Generalconto Kft. for the quality work.
08.01.2008.
Our new page has been launched. We will upload missing sections soon in the next few weeks.
About Us
The objective of the team is to protect and save human life with our tools and capabilities in conjunction with other hungarian teams and international organizations and to aid people in distress without regard their country of residence, their race, their sex, their religion, their political views and their level of affluence.
We believe and acknowledge that it is only possible to train rescue dogs by acknowledging responsibility and dedicating significant amounts of time and money. Annually, to certify their abilities, we demonstrate and test the dogs according to the standards of the International Rescue Dog Organization, the International Rettungshunde Organization. We repeat our tests every year.
* A dog well-trained to search through rubble is capable of detecting a person that is several meters below the surface and give a clear signal of the detection to it’s owner.
* Dogs trained to search a wide area are capable of searching acres of forest or other plant covered areas in around 8-10 minutes and thereafter give an unmistakable signal for people found there. These dogs are able to work for days in a high level with appropriate restings.
* Dogs trained to track can follow a scent which is several hours old and which for example comes from a lost child wandering in an area. In this way it is easy to pick up the track of missing persons.
* As a result of their special training, dogs trained to search for corpses, as with their brethern trained to search through rubble or over a wide area, are able to limit their search specifically to dead people.
Our members have diverse backgrounds: a military doctor, a teacher, an animal breeder, a student, a language teacher, a rescue worker, and a professional firefighter. We carry out our activity on a charitable basis in our free time without any remuneration.
With our dogs, we participate in the search for persons (searching through building rubble and over wide areas) in cooperation with official organizations (eg. police, fire departments, ambulance, local goverments).
Our team supports the knowledge propagation and education so that is why we took part of 30 demonstations ans shows where we demonstrated our team and our dogs knowledge. We were on different type of events for example children’s day, labour day, youth camps and animal protecion events.
We emphasize strongly the technical work and the continual improvement of theoretical and practical knowledge. There is extensive international travel (Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, etc.) in order to train with other teams and for deployment exercises. We obtain technical materials from abroad and maintain continuous contacts with diverse search teams with the benefit of the internet.
The team works closely with the National Catastrophe Prevention Directorate, the Municipal Fire Fighting Directorate, the Official National Governmental Fire Fighting Association, the European Rescue Service and numerous additional official and voluntary rescue organizations.
Up until now, using only our own resources, we have achieved that we are in a position to search for and rescue people in distress with 9 dogs that are certified to be internationally deployable, with emergency doctors, nurses, and fire fighters. The team is registered and planned for domestic and international deployment with the National Catastrophe Prevention Directorate. Our Team have participated in traning and exercise which was held and organized by the National Catastrophe Prevention Directorate and the United Nations, where we reached the UN OCHA international certificate which is internationally recognized.
All of our team members have received the appropriate vaccinations from the Health Directorate of the Hungarian Defense Ministry, thus having a broad range of protection and the international vaccination pass (hepatitis A-B, typhoid fever, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, encephalitis transferred by ticks, etc.).