In 2016, during the Dog Head Fire in NM, the whole community worked to get horses and other livestock out of the danger area. People with trailers went repeatedly into the fire area. No animals were lost. A local ranch took them in and fed and cared for them for no cost. It’s just how we roll in the East Mountains.
>>In 2016, during the Dog Head Fire in NM, the whole community worked to get horses and other livestock out of the danger area. People with trailers went repeatedly into the fire area. No animals were lost. A local ranch took them in and fed and cared for them for no cost. It’s just how we roll in the East Mountains.<<
The logistics in that part of California are much more complex and there was very little time to do that. Most of the owners just opened the stable doors and let the horses use their instincts to flee properly.
Good place to roll.....
I’m one half New Mexican which probably surprises folks given my particular southerness
Great grandpa and grandma buried in Artesia
Great uncle and aunt in vets cemtary off North Guadalupe in Santa Fe
Dad born in Artesia and his siblings in Carlsbad and Las Cruces
Mississippi folks out there building govt roads in the 20s though my great grandpa went there for asthma in 1890s while it was still territory and fairly wild
I love the state especially Chama area......
We used to own property north of Santa Fe and dad was friendly with the Murphy family who had the Pink Adobe back then
Rosalia the mom died about 7 years ago and was from New Orleans with Mississippi kin
I think her descendants just sold out for around 13 m
God bless
Btw
Santa Fe is not as comfortable for conservatives as back in my youth of the 50s 60s and 70s when it was a cowboy town with Indians and art
Now it’s not hospitable to our kind
That’s what happens here too. The difference I think is the multitude of horse people and ranchers with trailers and ranches, big and small that can take them. From watching twitter mostly about the fire, the fires moved rapidly, without access for trailers to get in or enough trailers to handle the amount of livestock.
Most horse people hit the road to help in a heartbeat if they can, including just riding one out and leading others or turning them all loose.
It’s hard to say what happened here. It sounds like they waited too late do anything. The one time I had to evacuate, I had my trailer hooked up and both horses in it for an hour or so before orders came to evacuate.
The fire in question here was spread by 60 mph winds and was consuming an acre a second. Try and wrap your head around that.