The Fire Service in the Flemish Brabant town of Vilvoorde have rescued a horse from a stream. Tornado, a 25-year-old mare, had fallen into the stream after she had been startled when she got stuck in an electric wire fence. The elderly horse came out of her ordeal unscathed.
At around 6:45am on Tuesday the Flemish Brabant West Fire Service received a call about a horse that had fallen into a stream adjacent to the Brembosstraat in Vilvoorde.
The Fire Service spokesman Wouter Jeanfils told VRT News that "When we arrived, we saw that the mare was stuck in an electric fence and she was lying in a stream”.
"First of all, we turned off the electricity supply so we could work safely. We then used all our force to free the animal from the stream”
The rescue opperation ran smoothly and the horse was uninjured. "After a quick inspection she was running around merrily again as if nothing had happened”.