Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group

We hope you can come out to a very important event — 4th Annual Missing Persons Awareness Day at Schenley Park on Saturday, June 6th from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

This event helps bring awareness to missing persons cases, supports families and loved ones, and highlights the importance of community involvement in search and rescue efforts.

We look forward to seeing members of the community come together for this meaningful day. Please stop by, learn more, show your support, see our Team truck, meet members of our Team, including our K9s.

📍 Schenley Park
📅 Saturday, June 6
🕚 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Today’s K9 training brought some of the best parts of what we do in Search and Rescue: teamwork, cross-discipline learning, and problem-solving under real challenge conditions.

Air scent and trailing teams spent time working side-by-side, not just running separate problems, but actively observing and learning from each other’s handling styles, decision-making, and search strategies. That kind of shared training space helps build a stronger, more cohesive search unit when every second counts in the field.

HRD had a particularly demanding day. The dogs worked through a series of difficult scenarios with multiple negative “false hole” distractors followed by actual buried problems. It wasn’t about speed today—it was about clarity, persistence, and trust in training. Those kinds of setups test both dog and handler in a way that sharpens problem recognition and reinforces clean final responses.

Days like this aren’t always pretty in real time, but they’re where the most growth happens. Every mistake, every hesitation, and every correct call adds up to better performance when it matters most.

Strong work today across all teams. The progress shows in the details. 🐾

Congratulations to AMRG member and K9 handler Lucy Klimko for being selected as Rescue Direct's National Volunteer Month Volunteer Gear Grant recipient. Thank you to Rescue Direct for recognizing and rewarding Lucy's years of dedicated service to the community.

For National Volunteer Month, we're giving back with a $250 Volunteer Gear Grant to help a volunteer rescuer or volunteer team replace worn-out gear, upgrade essentials, or complete their rescue kit.

How to enter:
1️⃣ Tag a volunteer rescuer in the comments
2️⃣ Tell us what they do: Fire, SAR, Rope Rescue, Water Rescue, USAR, or EMS
3️⃣ Share why they deserve the grant
4️⃣ Bonus: Share this post to your story and tag Rescue Direct

Whether they’re answering calls in fire rescue, search and rescue, rope rescue, or water rescue, we want to recognize the volunteers who keep their communities ready.

Who are you nominating, and what kind of work do they do? 👇

Open to US Residents only.