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Horse rescued from farmyard slurry lagoon in Shrawardine

By Shropshire Live27 April 2015
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A specialist animal rescue team last night released a horse after he ran into a slurry lagoon on a farm in Shrawardine.

Horse rescued from farmyard slurry lagoon in Shrawardine

The team from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service and a vet from Fyrnwy Equine Clinic attended the incident at just after 8pm last night.

They spent two hours releasing Charlie the horse using an inflatable path to work around him. Specialist strops were used with an arm loader attached to a tractor to help rescue him from the deep pit.

Three fire appliances including the Rescue Tender were mobilised from Baschurch, Shrewsbury and Wellington attended.

Successful rescue last night of 'Charlie' who had run into a farmyard slurry lagoon. Needed some sedation/analgesia pic.twitter.com/8PDAhJ1Prv https://twitter.com/FyrnwyEquine/status/592560679778918400

Great work by @SFRSWellington Shropshire fire large animal rescue team pic.twitter.com/5xzBuO8qBl https://twitter.com/FyrnwyEquine/status/592560860993822721

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