Bob had to be hoisted from the boggy ditch in a joint rescue mission by West Sussex and Surrey fire crews. Dramatic footage shows fire crews wrapping a harness around the 17-hand stallion.
This is the moment a horse was today winched to safety after becoming trapped in a ditch after a huge fall in a country field.
Dramatic footage shows fire crews wrapping a harness around the 17-hand stallion before an unimog fire truck carefully lifts him into the air under the watchful eye of a local vet. Dramatic footage shows fire crews wrapping a harness around the 17-hand stallion before an unimog fire truck carefully lifts him into the air under the watchful eye of a local vetThe rescue took place just three years after Bob arrived in West Sussex having been flown over from Ireland.It came after crews received a combined 650 animal-related callouts in the period from 2013 to 2015, costing the service £105,000, reported The Argus.
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