Posted on 01/30/2010 7:09:50 AM PST by Graybeard58
LITCHFIELD It's not a call often heard on police scanners: "Horse into a well."
But on a bitterly cold and windy Friday, firefighters responded to Lee's Riding Stable, where a 3-year-old Morgan named Windfield Effervescence somehow fell into an 8-foot-deep well.
Stable workers found the horse about 2 p.m. It had been stuck neck-deep in water for at least an hour, said Lee Lyons, the owner of the stable where she breeds and boards horses. Other horses that had been in the field with Windfield Effervesence were standing near the well, which had a wooden cover that the horse somehow broke through, Lyons said.
"How she got in there, I don't know," Lyons said. "It was just one of those crazy things a horse does."
The temperature early Friday afternoon in Litchfield was in the teens, with wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
Lyons called 911, prompting a quick response by firefighters. It's a time when living in a small town with volunteer firefighters has its unexpected benefits: Fire Chief James C. Koser also is supervisor of the public works department.
He called in some of his crew. Bring a backhoe, he told them.
Using what are known as pike poles, firefighters were able to get straps around the horse so it could be lifted out using the backhoe. "It was really a simple operation," Deputy Fire Chief Ed Evers said. "We got a couple of straps around her and she came right out."
Cold and wet with cuts on her legs, the horse was covered in blankets and walked to a barn for treatment by an equine veterinarian. She is expected to make a full recovery, Lyons said. Animal control investigated and ruled the incident an accident.
"They did a great job," Lyons said. "Every time I see them, I tell them just how much I love them for what they do."
“to them I say, “Neigh, neigh!””
I just knew somebody was going to pony up to the puns.
I have APPALOOSA pun for you.
Give us your plan for having volunteer firefighters and other emergency crews rescue babies from abortions. I am sure we would all be interested in hearing it. In case you haven't noticed these people are helpless in doing anything about it unless they break the law and end up in prison. Your statement is that of an unhinged person.
We, conservatives, all hate abortions but to rail about firefighters not "doing something" about them is just insane.
Still oughta do their job though, and not leave it to passing good Samaritans. Hopefully with the house fire they manned up and did what they were supposed to do.
When I joined the Fire Department there were Fir Boxes all over the city. We went to a lot of false alarms
Those boxes have all been removed, replaced by citizens with cell phones.
I’ve been gone from Fun City for a while. I remember them talking about removing them, but I thought that was beaten down.
Anyway, don’t live there no mo, so not my problem.
Horses do things like this constantly. You would be amazed at the trouble horses contrive to get themselves into. They are ceaselessly curious but aren’t good physicists and rarely predict the results of their actions.
I understand horses I have five. (and will be saddled up for an afternoon ride within 20 minutes)
It simply seems ridiculous that animal control officers would open up a case like this to determine if it was an accident or not.
Why would you think they are not, it's possible that half of them or more, are just as involved as you are, Heaven forbid, - maybe even more so!
Almost every member here is pro life but this is a horsey thread.
They may have wanted to make sure that no negligence was involved.
You are probably right. Just poor repporting.
Btw I an freeping on horseback!
“Animal control investigated and ruled the incident an accident. “
Dammit this is America!!! Somebody should be charged with a CRIME!!!! (sarcasm ON)
How in the world would we ever get by with out the government looking after us stupid sheeple.
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