Caption

Dog handlers with rescue dogs from the Specialist Locating Group get ready for action, the sniffer dogs are to track down people in e.g. collapsed buildings, large-scale exercise FÜLEX25 lasting several days, organised by the THW, Federal Agency for Technical Relief, North Rhine-Westphalia regional association, over 3500 volunteers from the 127 North Rhine-Westphalia local associations practise on 4 weekends, many different operational scenarios

Date

Aug 29, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25I75_098

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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124.5Mb (5.0Mb) / 26.4in x 18.3in / 7924 x 5491 (300dpi)

Keywords

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