Rescue dogs lend a paw after devastating quakes

Mackenzie Samet

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Sep 25, 2017

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Drago, a rescue dog, waits with a Guatemalan search-and-rescue team in Guatemala City, before heading to Mexico to assist in the humanitarian effort after a major earthquake that left more than 230 people dead. Getty Images

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Frida, a rescue dog belonging to the Mexican Navy, with her handler Israel Arauz Salinas. AFP/Getty Images

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Soldiers with specially trained dogs search for survivors amid the ruins of buildings knocked down by the 8.1-magnitude quake in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico. AFP/Getty Images

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Spanish rescue team members with their dogs are seen at the Colonia Roma in Mexico City on Sept. 23 four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico. AFP/Getty Images

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Rescue dogs receive a massage from a volunteer during a break from participating in the search for survivors in Mexico City on Sept. 22. AFP/Getty Images

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Frida takes part in the effort to look for people trapped at the Rebsamen school in Mexico City on Sept. 22. AFP/Getty Images

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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – SEPTEMBER 20: A rescuer searches for survivors with a dog a day after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted central Mexico killing more than 200 hundred people,… LatinContent/Getty Images

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Drago, the rescue dog, at the civil protection headquarters in Guatemala City on Sept. 21, before heading to Mexico. AFP/Getty Images

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A rescue dog searches for survivors in Mexico City on Sept. 23. AFP/Getty Images

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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – SEPTEMBER 22: A rescuer walks with a dog to search for survivors in a collapsed building three days after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted central Mexico… Getty Images

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Sniffer dogs take part in the search for survivors at a flattened building in Mexico City. AFP/Getty Images

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Two Argentinian rescue workers take a break with their sniffer dogs. AFP/Getty Images

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Spanish rescue team members with their dogs are seen at the at Colonia Roma in Mexico City on September 23, 2017, four days after the powerful quake that hit central… AFP/Getty Images

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A rescue dog searches for survivors in Mexico City on September 23, 2017, four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico. In the capital, the quake toppled 39… AFP/Getty Images

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