Firefighters rescue horse from Spokane swimming pool
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A group of Spokane Valley firefighters were called in to do a water rescue Tuesday morning after a 15-year-old mare stumbled into a swimming pool Monday night.
Around 9 a.m. firefighters responded to a home in the 17000 block of E. Montgomery Ave. where the horse, Missy, had found her way into the pool. Strong winds had blown down a section of a fence in the backyard of a home on Montgomery, allowing the horse to wander into the yard and into the pool.
The pool had been winterized and covered, and when she tore through the liner, the water in the pool drained out. If that hadn't been the case Missy might've drowned or died from hypothermia.
The owners, finding Missy in their pool, called 9-1-1 and firefighters, upon arrival, came up with a plan to build steps for her to climb out of the pool. Once the steps were completed Missy climbed out with only minor injuries.
Around 9 a.m. firefighters responded to a home in the 17000 block of E. Montgomery Ave. where the horse, Missy, had found her way into the pool. Strong winds had blown down a section of a fence in the backyard of a home on Montgomery, allowing the horse to wander into the yard and into the pool.
The pool had been winterized and covered, and when she tore through the liner, the water in the pool drained out. If that hadn't been the case Missy might've drowned or died from hypothermia.
The owners, finding Missy in their pool, called 9-1-1 and firefighters, upon arrival, came up with a plan to build steps for her to climb out of the pool. Once the steps were completed Missy climbed out with only minor injuries.
Maybe she wanted to polar dip...
Don't most pools already have steps to get out? Or is that only the concrete pools?
There are below ground pools that use a liner instead of concrete. That is a lucky horse.
Yay for good news and kind acts.
How refreshing reading a happy story for a change. Get-a-long little horsey to where you belong cutie!!!
Glad they were able to giddyup, uh I mean git her up out of the pool. ;)
Hey quit horseing around in the pool!
when she tore through the liner, the water in the pool drained out.
it is a below the ground pool this is not possible the pool had to have been already drained and so glad it was.
glad the horse is ok.
Many below ground pools these days have a vinyl liner instead of concrete, my parents have on like that. They winterize it each year and leave most of the water in it. In this case the water most likely drained quickly becase pools with a vinyl liner are built on a thick bed of sand.
 @michelle I was really confused by that!
 @michelle That makes two of us! lol
 @michelle It's magic!