Salem Firefighters Rescue Snow-Trapped Horse

Members of the Salem Fire Department were called to help a trapped horse on Robinson Road Saturday morning.

In addition to extinguishing two snowplow fires in white-out conditions overnight, Salem firefighters can add saving a trapped horse to their growing list of duties performed during The Blizzard of 2013. At approximately 10 a.m., local firefighters responded to Robinson Road to assist the owner of a large horse who reported that the animal somehow got itself trapped under a fence while rolling around in the snow. "She wasn't really trapped, she was just rolling around in the snow and got herself too close to a fence and ended up stuck there," firefighter Erin Griffin said. Using one of the owner's "horse straps", local firefighters manually pulled the 2,000-pound Belgian away from the fence and once freed, she reportedly popped right up …

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