Posted on 06/12/2016 6:22:04 AM PDT by SandRat
HEREFORD When the Monument Fire blazed through a pasture in Hereford where 24 horses were grazing, one of them - a horse named Charlie - was severely burned.
Described as a tough little ranch horse, Charlie was under the care of Horsen Around Rescue Ranch and one of several horses being moved out of the fires path when it first started on June 12.
Charlie was the only horse in our herd that panicked ran into the fire instead of away from it, lamented Steve Boice, co-founder of Horsen Around, a nonprofit equine rescue organization headquartered out of Single Star Ranch in Hereford. His body was literally on fire when he was first spotted by our volunteers. It was a terrible sight.
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