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    'All go and no brake': Tireless LA cadaver dogs search Lahaina for human remains

    One of the most important members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's search team on Maui is struggling with his boots. They're new, obviously uncomfortable and making him walk funny. He keeps trying to kick them off, so his handler has tried everything, including duct tape and rubber bands, to hold them in place and help him focus on the vitally important job in front of him. ...
    by Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2023 5 minutes
    LA County Fire urban search and rescue crew member Nicholas Bartel tempts cadaver dog Six with a toy, usually used as a reward after a successful behavior, on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.

    One of the most important members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's search team on Maui is struggling with his boots.

    They're new, obviously uncomfortable and making him walk funny. He keeps trying to kick them off, so his handler has tried everything, including duct tape and rubber bands, to hold them in place and help him focus on the vitally important job in front of him.

    Prentiss, a 9-year-old Labrador retriever, is one of about 40 cadaver dogs doing the grueling work of searching through the rubble of Lahaina, sniffing for even the slightest trace of the more than 800 people still missing after the most lethal U.S. wildfire in a century.

    Human searchers have little hope of detecting the tiny fragments that remain of , each of them somebody's mom, dad, daughter or son.

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