I really find my memories of of being there are very truncated. They're little
glimpses. You know you could really feel at the World Trade Center the terror
there. It was just it was in the air. It was just horror you know and Jenner felt
that you know Jenner looked back at me at one time when he was searching the
pile and he just looked at me and he just said what happened here.
Maybe someday I'll take Jenner's eyes just back to the World Trade Center. Who
knows yeah maybe a fitting spot. A rescue dog has to have the same components
that we're looking for in our rescue people which is strength, intelligence,
courage, the spirit to help and of course in the case of a rescue dog a
really good nose.
We actually searched for five days. Jenner just he got sent and he took off
from the rubble and he climbed up on this pile probably 60 70 feet from us and
he disappeared behind a girder and he and then he came back you know five or
ten seconds later but I just looked at him and he looked at me and I said to
the firefighters when you're done there see where that dog is right there up by
that mark on the thing go and look up there because he just found something up
there and they told me later was actually a full-body firefighter in his
bunker gear. One firefighter as he was going into the scene he just came up to
us and he knelt down and he just was hugging Jenner he was talking to Jenner
and he had tears streaming down his face and he said I lost 13 of my best
friends here. I really think Jenner is the first person he told. I don't know
that he could have gotten that out before then and you know that that type
of thing happened a lot. You just it just were a community you were you were
with those people you were hoping to help some of them you were hoping that
your teammates could help others of them you know you just that's that's all you
could help for.
There are like 18 I think dogs across the country that are Jenner children or
grandchildren that are FEMA certified and there's more coming so he really had
the disaster gene. He just he was a phenomenal dog and he really passed it
on to his children so he really did change the search dog world in a lot of
ways.
