Horse treated for burns after trying to escape fire
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A horse was being treated for burns today after it tried to escape a fire in Sylmar and was pinned between its makeshift corral and a fence, the Times’ Tami Abdollah reports:
Firefighters responded to the fire in the 13000 block of North Dronfield Avenue about 11:10 p.m. Wednesday, said d’Lisa Davies, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The 20-feet-by-20-feet makeshift corral was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, she said. It took them 27 minutes to put out the blaze, and no people were injured.When one horse tried to escape, it was ‘pinned between the burning corral and the chain-link fence’ and was burned, Davies said. She said the cause of the fire is unknown.
--Francisco Vara-Orta