In Geneva, dogs are trained in fake ruins to save lives

Concrete ruins, destroyed houses. It feels like being in the middle of a battlefield. However, we are indeed in Switzerland, this July 19, in the Geneva countryside more exactly, not far from the French border. With the war in Ukraine and natural disasters, images of chaos are recurrent on our screens. Here, in the open, it is obvious to us. The Swiss army has reconstructed this context to simulate rescues and thus prepare rescuers for an emergency. The fake tattered village is made available to REDOG, the Swiss Society of Search and Rescue Dogs, which trains animals to respond to landslides, earthquakes or explosions in Switzerland and abroad. foreign.