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    OK Firefighters Mourn Loss of Rescue Dog

    May 30, 2019
    Cali, who joined the Oklahoma City Fire Department as a search and rescue K-9 in 2016, died from heart failure because of bacterial lesions that attached to her aortic valve.

    Source The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City

    Oklahoma City, OK, Fire Department
    Cali and her Oklahoma City, OK, Fire Department handler, Lt. Mark Edwards.
    Cali and her Oklahoma City, OK, Fire Department handler, Lt. Mark Edwards.

    Oklahoma City firefighters are mourning the loss of a search and rescue dog who died Tuesday.

    “It's with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Cali, one of our search and rescue K-9 members,” officials wrote Wednesday.

    Cali was born Sept. 27, 2014, and raised by her handler, Lt. Mark Edwards. Cali and Edwards became a team following a passing of a leash ceremony on Nov. 3, 2016. The dog and Edwards traveled across the country for training, and she was complimented on her natural ability and incredible drive, officials said.

    "After recently becoming ill, she was diagnosed with heart failure due to bacterial lesions which attached to her aortic valve," officials said.

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