| Show - When catastrophe occurs—in the U S or anywhere else—Caroline Hebard a rescue volunteer and her search dog Pascha are ready to travel I YHEN r :wway kids FIE2 b Caroline Hebard told me "It had to do with loving the outdoors and working with dogs It was therapy at first but it's become a great deal more" Hebard 49 is an unpretentious woman who speaks with calm modesty and precision often smiling as she watches her listener's eyes For two decades she has been living what might seem to be a double existence Married rgy i 4m00' 00 7s! 1 rt: ammo001 - tiv i i ''''''-vr- ': it k A 9 i: to a prominent physicist with whom she has raised four children (now 15 to 23) in suburban Bernardsville NJ she is also devoted to saving the lives of strangers—in this country or anywhere else in the world—on a moment's notice "I love the thrill the rush of adrenaline that you get in an emergency response" she says "There's also a lot of personal satisfaction in knowing you're doing something worthwhile At disaster scenes you find the best and the worst sides of human nature And too I've been in some hairy situations Most of all I've learned to appreciate life" Hebard is and leader of the US Disaster Response Team a of volunteers search-and-resc- ue from around the country who respond to both nationally and intercatastrophes the top-1-0 units who of (One nationally have completed the training required by the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance her team is recognized as a resource by both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs) She carries a pager with a beeper and uses a car phone A backpack and duffel bag are loaded and waiting She and her latest canine partner Pascha a highly trained Gerear-old man shepherd are "always ready" according to the slogan "so that others may live" It was December 1988 when Hebard returned an urgent call from the disaster office and learned that an earthquake Armenia had leveled in apartment buildings factories schools and homes The death toll was 50000 and climbing How soon the government official asked could she and her search dog be set to go? Within hours Hebard had left her husband in charge of the home front and was boarding a flight from New York to the nation's capital With her German then was My her his wore who orange "resshepherd cue" vest and sat on the floor as a spe ' "II was pushed into suburbia - 1 ' ''' t ''' with two k kids in - diapers not - A -' a I fer : knowing r''- Caroline Hebard recalls "I wasn't the type to join the Junior ' ' ' t '- - I I4 3 ) 1 A - 1 t- - - v- - : - --- -- -- l' - - li discovered a searchand-r- - - '' i kv team right - y i ' 11 there" l'''A 4 42 -- escue 't - '- - 1 I - '': -- League By luck ' - anyone" t "' - - 11) o s L " - Al J1 : t i' A 4y- search-and-resc- then-Sovi- - ue et IMI1 799n CD 0 96-pou- nd COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY 0 0 An drild'W HANK u D W0 () T 0 0 WHIT TEMORE ---- BY REINHOLD SPIEGLER MEMMNI 0 P-TE- PAGE ' 4 ------11 SEPTEMBER I2 1DD3 PARADE MAGAZtE |
