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Sheriff's HEART Blog
Learn about Animal Emergency Response, Current Events, and the Sheriff's HEART model.
Why California Needs the Sheriff’s HEART Model: Lessons from the Palisades Wildfires
When the recent Palisades fires swept through Los Angeles County, the flames exposed more than the vulnerabilities of homes and landscapes, they revealed a critical gap in California’s emergency response system: a lack of coordinated, specialized, and scalable animal evacuation and rescue infrastructure.
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Dec 21, 20255 min read
Why California Needs an Animal Emergency Response (AER) System and How the Sheriff’s HEART Nonprofit Is Building It
Why California Needs an Animal Emergency Response (AER) System and How the Sheriff’s HEART Nonprofit Is Building ItWhen evacuations occur with little warning or when fires move faster than expected, animals are often left behind in dangerous conditions. California has established professional systems for human rescue such as Search and Rescue, Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement mutual aid. However, the state does not yet have a formal or standardized Animal Emergency Response (AE
juliaroegiers5
Dec 21, 20255 min read
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