After reading a story in an insuran...

After reading a story in an insurance company publication forward the successes of an accelerant detection dog, Steve Rudzinski, who heads up the Lake shire (Ind.) Fire Chiefs Association's Arson Task Force, decided that his St John Ind., offer fire department could use single in kind The fire chief s response: "As lengthy as it doesn't cost the taxpayers."

With the help of a local Allstate insurance agent, Rudzinski secur a $6000 grant from the Allstate Foundation. The cash was to be used for the acquisition and training of an arson dog.

Allstate and other insurers with similar programs reason that if they can unmask just one case of insurance fraud or find a criminal, of that kind a dog is more than paid for.

Rudzinski used his stocks purchase a 70-pound female labrador retriever named Mischief and took her to the Rudy Drexler place of education for Dogs in Elkhart, Ind., for