The dramatic moment a horse was rescued to safety by firefighters unfolded in the UK—after the equine fell into a river.
On Monday, April 1, Magenta the horse became stranded in a river after she was apparently “spooked” and threw her rider.
Photographs taken from the scene of the incident show the gray horse being hoisted to safety as firefighters used a harness and lift machinery to extract her heavy, wet body from the water at Throckenholt, on the Cambridgeshire-Lincolnshire border.
Magenta the horse being rescued from a river by Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue in Throckenholt. SWNS
The gray horse being hoisted to safety by firefighters using a harness and lifting machinery at Throckenholt. SWNS
The crew, from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue, used paddleboards to get close enough to the frightened animal to secure her to a winch.
Magenta was returned unharmed to her owner after the recovery operation was carried out under the supervision of a veterinarian.
The horse being brought ashore. SWNS
Magenta mingles with firefighters after being rescued. SWNS
“Poor Magenta the horse needed the assistance of Peterborough and Wisbech firefighters when she became spooked by something while out on a ride, unseated her owner, and ended up in the river, unable to get out,” Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue said in a statement.