Jeff Hill of Paradise, California, was checking on someone's house after the Camp Fire nearly leveled the entire town, and what he found in the backyard startled him.
It was a horse "shivering uncontrollably," Hill wrote on Facebook. He found the horse in the backyard pool, suspended by a pool cover.
The horse "had the look of defeat in her eyes," Hill wrote. But thanks to the pool, she was spared from the deadliest wildfire in California history. Hill said it's unclear how long the horse was in the pool. Because of
the pool cover, she was able to sit in the water without drowning until
the fire has passed, he wrote in his now-viral post. Hill said
the group he was with scrambled to unhook the pool cover, pull the horse
to the shallow end, and guide her up the pool steps. "She got out,
shook off, loved on us for a few minutes as a thank you and walked off
assuring us that she was ok," Hill wrote...MORE
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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