Mare reunited with foal after river rescue
A mare was reunited alongside her foal afterward beingness rescued from a brook inward Gloucester, England.
Firefighters from the Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service answered the telephone band before long afterward midday on Mon to a holding off Bredon Rd, inward Tewkesbury.
The large animate beingness rescue squad from Gloucester North Fire Station were able to costless the mare uninjured using a specialist Equus caballus collar.
She had cash inward one's chips stuck inward the brook, separating her from her foal inward the field.
“When nosotros arrived, the mare was upright together with calm inward the brook,” crew commander together with animate beingness rescue specialist Michael Keel said.
“We sent ii firefighters inward dry out suits into the water, alongside 1 holding the Equus caballus together with the other on standby for back upward if needed.
“Thankfully, nosotros were able to larn the specialist Equus caballus neckband over her head, take away a modest fenced expanse together with Pb her calmly to safely. I therefore checked her over together with she was absolutely fine.
“Her possessor was extremely grateful for the successful rescue.”
Keel said the specialist grooming firefighters received for such rescues was important.
The swift-water rescue squad from Tewkesbury too attended the incident together with were on standby inward illustration to a greater extent than crew were needed.
The large animate beingness rescue squad was introduced concluding twelvemonth when Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service invested inward large animate beingness rescue equipment together with instructors to ensure that firefighters had the best skills available to protect themselves when treatment large animals.
With Gloucestershire beingness such a rural county, the Service is often called out to rescue large animals – the close mutual beingness horses, cattle, pigs together with sheep who often honor themselves trapped inward machinery, bogs, rivers, pools, brooks together with ditches, or victims of route traffic collisions.
Councillor Will Windsor-Clive, cabinet fellow member for fire, planning together with infrastructure, said the latest rescue demonstrated the importance of that investment inward specialist equipment together with training.
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