Dramatic horse rescue near West Montrose

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">国外母马获救记：</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">

Dramatic horse rescue near West Montrose

</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">Firefighters were called to assist in an unusual rescue Sunday night. A horse named Ronnie-Joe had escaped from her pasture near West Montrose, and fallen into an underground water tank.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">Ronnie-Joe's owners said she broke through a wooden lid which covered a 2.5-foot square opening leading to the tank. Only part of her head and one hoof were visible above ground.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">The 24-year old mare was stuck in the hole for hours as rescue crews tried to remove her. A veterinarian was called in to help crews safely remove Ronnie-Joe.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">"The horse can only survive in there so long," said Ken Boys, Centre Wellington Fire District Chief. "It's cold, it's traumatized, it started to jump around and actually the horse was starting to slip away."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">Firefighter Steve Hamilton said their experience and training at the Elora Gorge helped in the rescue. "We took some of our high angle experiences and worked them into the equation and it worked out perfect."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 22px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif;">The exhausted horse had hypothermia, but is expected to make a full recovery.</span></span></p>

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<p>Hope&nbsp;Ronnie is recover soon.</p><p></p>

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<div class="msgheader">QUOTE:</div><div class="msgborder"><b>以下是引用<i>花香</i>在2011/1/10 18:23:00的发言：</b><br/><p>Hope&nbsp;Ronnie is recover soon.</p><p></p></div><p>Yeah, hope so..It's hard to see this kind of thing in China..</p>

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