KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Search crews at the site of a massive explosion that destroyed a popular Kansas City, Mo., restaurant recovered one body Wednesday, and the city’s mayor said there was no certainty the rubble wasn’t concealing other victims.
Mayor Sly James declined to say whether the body belonged to a man or a woman, though authorities have been looking for a woman who worked at JJ’s restaurant and was seen there before the Tuesday evening blast and reported missing afterward. They previously said she was the only person still unaccounted for following the explosion and fire.
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The headline mentions 'cadaver dogs', as if dead canines were somehow resuming activities of life. But the Boston Glob editors don't bother to define this expression, 'cadaver dogs'. What breeds of canine have sniffers best adapted to finding ded people, even those roasted to a final demise? What makes a dog better at searching for cadavers than drugs or explosives? If such dogs are handled by police or other emergency agency workers, are they kept at the handler's home when not working? Can odors found around a home - say other dogs, or cats, or children - mess up a cadaver dog's sniffer so it is not as acute s it needs to be for the animal to search successfully?
C'mon Globies, you use unusual concepts (yeah, I know, the expression 'cadaver dog' is becoming more common, but is not yet as common as 'autoist', an expression used in another Feb. 20, 2013 Globe article about noise), but fail to educate your readers in whatever the concept might mean.