A WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FIREFIGHTER WHO is also a farrier on his day job, was on the first-alarm response to a barn fire Monday night. When the units arrived on the scene, there was fire showing in a boarding stable at the Greenmor Equestrian Center.
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The barn contained 13 animals with another 18 in an adjoining building. While awaiting the arrival of the FD, three people at the stables dashed in to release the horses and shoo them outside to a nearby field. But one horse was spooked and refused to leave. That’s when FF Paul Williams arrived and he learned what the problem was. Williams knows the horse from his work and he ran into the blazing barn, calmed the horse before putting a “neck rope” on her and then led the animal out of the barn just in time.
WTAE-TV Ch. 4 Pittsburgh has this video report and a brief interview with FF Williams:
All thirty horses were led out safely and none had to be treated or put down. The barn, however, was a total loss.
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