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Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team

Friday, May 24, 2013

Animal Rescue Team Founded by Upper St. Clair Firefigher, Cop Hosts Student Tour

The trip is the conclusion of a fundraiser for a late art teacher who always loved animals.

Pilots and board members of the Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team, created by Upper St. Clair volunteer firefighter Brad Childs and Upper St. Clair officer Robert McMaster, will provide an educational tour of the Allegheny County Airport and their hangar to a group of elementary students from Pittsburgh’s Roosevelt Elementary School on June 3. The trip will be the conclusion of a school fundraising event in the honor of the school’s late art teacher Kathryn Mueller, who loved animals. The school wanted to do something to honor Mrs. Mueller and Anne McMaster, PAART board member and teacher at Roosevelt, initiated a fundraising drive on May 13 to collect money to donate to PAART. Students were asked to bring in coins to support the …

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Upper St. Clair Firefighter and Police Officer Use Plane to Rescue Dogs, Upper St. Clair Volunteer Fire Department, and Upper St. Clair Police Department

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Upper St. Clair Firefighter and Police Officer Use Plane to Rescue Dogs

Brad Childs and Robert McMaster are working to make their Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team a nonprofit organization.

Brad Childs and Robert McMaster are using more than Upper St. Clair fire trucks and police cruisers to help others—they're using an airplane. Childs, a volunteer firefighter and the vice president of Eyetique, and McMaster, an Upper St. Clair officer, both have a love for flying and animals, so they've teamed up to create the Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team. The organization transports at-risk animals by working with volunteer rescue organizations and shelters. For example, Childs said he'll get a call that a shelter is going to euthanize dozens of dogs, so he'll work through Pilots N Paws to help get the dogs to a no-kill shelter or a "furever" home. "It's weird, but they (the dogs) know you're helping them get out of a bad …

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Upper St. Clair Volunteer Fire Department and Upper St. Clair Police Department

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9:54 pm on Monday, March 11, 2013

You guys are AMAZING == THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for what you do for these helpless animals.   more ›

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