9/11 Rescue Dogs in Critical Health Study

"For 11 straight days, Mizu crawled along precarious 'I' beams and threaded her way through smoldering debris, looking for the bodies of people who did not survive the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. A veteran of rescue efforts following earthquakes in Turkey and Armenia, as well as the Columbia space shuttle explosion, Mizu, an 10-year-old German shepherd search-and-rescue dog, had never experienced anything like the fires, the gases and noxious debris cloud that threatened to consume all rescue workers -- human and canine alike..."
Source: Forbes.com, 5/30/2006