SOMERSET NEWS: Shire horse stuck up to its neck in water

FIREFIGHTERS were given a difficult task this afternoon (Thursday, October 2, 2014) when they had to help rescue a two-tonne shire horse.

Fire Control received a call at just after midday stating that a shire horse was stuck in a rhyne at Red Road in Berrow, near Burnham-on-Sea.

Fire engines from Burnham and Bridgwater were mobilised, along with a specialist animal rescue team.

A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman told the Yeovil Press: “Crews found a shire horse weighing two-tonnes stuck, up to its neck, in a water-filled ditch.

“With strops, lines and an off-road vehicles, crews managed to release the horse.”

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