Firebugs beware: Dinty the dog joins San Bernardino County Fire's arson team
Firebugs beware. Dinty the dog is on duty.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department announced Thursday that the 4-year-old male Labrador retriever had joined its investigation team with the Office of the Fire Marshal.
Dinty is the first arson, or accelerant detection, canine that the department has had in more than 20 years since Meg, who County Fire Chief Dan Munsey described as being “really good at catching arsonists and putting them behind bars where they needed to be.”
Dinty is also one of only five dogs across California trained through a State Farm Insurance program and the lone animal with such training in the county.