A crew from Richmond Fire-Rescue battled for more than four hours on Sunday morning to save an elderly horse stuck in a ditch.
Firefighters got the call Aug. 27 around 9:20 a.m. after a local farmer reported finding his 40-year-old horse wedged up to its chest in mud in the 6600 block of No. 6 Road, south of Westminster Highway.
According to Richmond Fire-Rescue’s Deputy Chief, Tim Wilkinson, the horse simply couldn’t move and had exhausted itself trying to get out.
Wilkinson said the crew went to work digging around the horse, before fashioning a harness from some of their own rescue equipment.
“We made a platform for the horse to kind of push off. Then we had to call in a tow truck to then hoist the horse out of the ditch, but all of this took some time to put together,” Wilkinson told the Richmond News.
“A vet was called in to check over the horse and it seemed to be okay.
“We practise trouble-shooting like this all the time.”
