Fire investigation teams and their four-legged partners from across the country are in Chula Vista for three days of recertification training designed to keep their specialized skills sharp.<\/p>\n
The teams include Chula Vista firefighter Maggie Greene and Hannah, a specially trained K-9 who uses her nose to help investigators determine how fires started.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been together for four years,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n
The pair began training together in 2022. Hannah’s job is to help fire investigators find potential evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir mission is to be able to assist in investigations,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo locate areas where evidence can be collected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although people in the community may refer to dogs like Hannah as \u201carson dogs,\u201d Greene said that is not the technical term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe community knows them like they\u2019re arson dogs. But technically, that’s not the term,” Greene said.<\/p>\n
The dogs are officially known as ignitable liquid detection K-9s.<\/p>\n
The recertification training at Chula Vista’s fire training facility brought in teams from as far away as Utah, Texas and Hawaii.<\/p>\n
For Greene, working with Hannah also required overcoming a personal fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for me personally, that was a little bit scary because I have been afraid of dogs all my life,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n
After four years together, Hannah has become part of Greene’s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a ham,” she said.<\/p>\n
Hannah has also become an essential partner in Greene’s work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot imagine working without her,” she said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC San Diego. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC San Diego journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire investigation teams and their four-legged partners from across the country are in Chula Vista for three days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9974,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-473652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-chula-vista","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}