Louisiana Search and Rescue Dog Team

The members of Louisiana Search and Rescue K9 Team (LaSAR) have made a commitment to assist the community by training dogs and their handlers to excel in the rescue or recovery of those in need and to work in conjunction with fire officials and law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal level to bring about a successful conclusion to a search. It is this commitment to our community which remains the guiding force behind LaSAR.

We require our our dog and handler teams to pass and maintain a Ham Radio license and to pass a yearly national certification standards test to be deployable in the field.

Our dogs are capable of working in wilderness and urban environments, buildings, vehicles and on water.

Since being founded in 1991 our team has responded over 800 times to calls for service. The team has deployed to calls for service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri, Alaska, and Canada.

Our teams have also been deployed to several disasters such as the New Orleans Riverwalk/ Bright Field accident in 1996, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2019 Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans and more recently the Texas Flood disaster in Hunt/Comfort, TX.

Our dogs have also been utilized by numerus archaeologists in the last 7 years in the new field of Historic Human Remains Detection - finding historic lost and forgotten cemeteries. 

We are a 100% volunteer run organization.