When a condominium tower collapsed in Surfside three years ago, Lexie the county rescue dog was there to try and sniff out survivors. The 6-year-old yellow lab also headed out to the Panhandle when Hurricane Idalia ravaged northern Florida last year.
On Wednesday, Lexie was in the very front of the send-off ceremony for her search-and-rescue team with Miami-Dade County, joining dozens of firefighters, paramedics and specialists for deployment to help somewhere in the path of Hurricane Milton, still to be determined.
“Lexie is always training,” said her handler and owner, Oliver Samy, a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue lieutenant and a member of the county’s urban search-and-rescue team…