Even the Dogs Needed a Win - The Quiet Struggle of 911’s Rescue Canines

NewsK365 · Sep 12, 2026 · 8m

Twenty-five years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, one of the quieter details of the recovery effort at Ground Zero continues to surface each anniversary. More than 300 search-and-rescue dogs from across the United States and beyond worked the unstable piles of twisted steel and concrete alongside human responders. Trained primarily to locate living people, many of these animals began showing clear signs of distress when days of searching yielded almost no live finds.

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