A group of emergency workers from local sheriff’s offices and the Alva Fire department helped rescue a horse that had fallen into the Caloosahatchee River in Hendry County yesterday.
They are members of the Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue Team.
A Charlotte County sheriff’s press release says the horse could not climb back up the steep 10 foot embankment and if not for a passing boater the horse could have drown or starved.
The team built an A-frame and used ropes and a pulley system to lift the horse up the bank. A vet examined the horse and released it back to its pasture.