As California wildfire rages, volunteers help rescue horses, livestock
(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.
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When I lived in CA, this was always a big fear. The first night we were there, I walked out and the whole, higher, mountainside above us was on fire. I was trying to figure out how to evacuate 3 horses with a 2 horse trailer. That fire burned for weeks, and news crews were camped out on our road.
