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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Sep 11, 2022, 02:08 PM Sep 2022

As California wildfire rages, volunteers help rescue horses, livestock [View all]

(Reuters) - When a wildfire began spreading out of control near her small ranch in Hemet, California, last Monday, Debby Taylor had one major concern: how to protect her donkeys.

She wrote her phone number on their halters, in case she was forced to set them loose. By Tuesday, however, the animals were on their way to a local thoroughbred horse farm, thanks to a network of local volunteers who sprang into action in recent days to rescue hundreds of horses, goats and other animals from the raging Fairview fire.

Taylor turned to Rena Salomon, a local woman whose nonprofit organization, Angel in a Hummer & HEART Foundation, transported some 800 animals from the danger zone over four grueling days with almost no rest.

Salomon, 57, who has spent years doing disaster relief, decided to start an animal evacuation team after the Lilac fire in 2017 in southern California killed dozens of horses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-california-wildfire-rages-volunteers-help-rescue-horses-livestock/ar-AA11HN9f

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