CAROLINE HEBARD (HE(short "e") -BIRD) is the co-founder of the U.S. Disaster Response Team. She and her German shepherd dogs have carried out search and rescue missions at the world's most tragic disaster sites: earthquakes in Japan, Mexico and Armenia, floods in Tennessee, huriccanes, and bridge collapses. The work is dangerous: trainers often follow their dogs into a collapsed building. HEBARD lives in Bernardsville, New Jersey with her husband, children and dogs. Her new book (written with Hank Whittemore) is "So That Others May Live." (Bantam Books). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE
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