Gerade erreichte mich aus einem anderen Forum, in dem ich seit über 10 Jahren aktiv, bin folgende tragische Nachricht:

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Please put good vibe out there for long time user Silver Creek Farms. This morning she tried getting her horses out but ended up having to turn them all loose because of fires in CA. My heart is absolutely breaking for her. She has a pregnant KNN, a rid mare, a ish yearling from the rid mare, two TB mares, and of course Brego. I dont know if she has more horses beyond that, it wouldn't surprise me. But she is absolutely devastated not knowing if her horses are alive or not. She doesn't know if she still has her truck and trailer. It is just absolutely heartbreaking.
Edit: I just saw she had posted her yearling has been found passed away. The dam to her yearling has been found badly burned. And another had to be shot because it was suffering.

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Bitte schickt dem langjährigen Mitglied Silver Creek Farms ein paar gute vibes. Heute Morgen hat sie versucht, ihre Pferde herauszuholen, musste sie aber wegen den Bränden in Kalifornien alle frei lassen. Mein Herz bricht absolut für sie. Sie hat eine schwangere Knabbi Stute, eine Irische Kaltblut-Stute, einen Irischen Sportpferde-Jährling aus der Irischen Kaltblut-Stute, zwei Vollblut-Stuten und natürlich Brego [ein OT Vollblut] . Ich weiß nicht, ob sie darüber hinaus mehr Pferde hat, es würde mich nicht überraschen. Aber sie ist absolut am Boden zerstört, weil sie nicht weiß, ob ihre Pferde leben oder nicht. Sie weiß nicht einmal, ob sie noch ihren LKW und Anhänger hat. Es ist einfach absolut herzzerreißend.
edit: Ich habe gerade gesehen, dass sie gepostet hat, dass ihr Jährling verstorben ist. Die Mutter ihres Jährlings wurde schwer verbrannt gefunden. Und ein anderes musste erschossen werden, weil er litt.


Ich möchte mir solche Tragödien bei diesen riesigen Waldbränden immer gar nicht vorstellen müssen!
Ich weiß es noch wie sie sich als Teenager gefreut hat, als sie Brego bekommen und ausgebildet hat und ihre ersten Vielseitigkeits Turniere mit ihm startete.... und wie sie sich letztes Jahr über das Fohlen von der Irin gefreut hat!

Solche Katastrophen lassen natürlich den ganzen alltäglichen Kleinkram, mit dem man sich sonst manchmal herumärgert, ruckartig verblassen.

So wie es aussieht, ist Ava, die irische Kaltblutstute wohl das einzige überlebende Pferd und steht mit schweren Verbrennungen und respiratorischen Problemen in der UC Davis.
Die anderen Pferde sind teils noch nicht identifiziert, aber es besteht wohl faktisch keine Hoffnung mehr, daß sie überlebt haben.

Scheinbar sind ihre frei gelassenen Pferde- auch Ava - alle zum Hof zurückgekommen bzw wurden im nächsten Umkreis des Hofes (tot) gefunden.

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Update on Marrissa’s horses.

So far the only horse recovered is Ava. Ava is at UC Davis in critical condition. Ava has 1st and 2nd degree burns all over and 3rd degree burns to her whole face. She’s in the NICU to have an air conditioned isolation stall and will have a nurse with her all night. Ava is fighting and holding on.

The bodies of three others, including Firefly’s, were recovered. Two others have not been located. Firefly had to be euthanized with a gun. It appears she was both badly burned and hit by a car.

There’s a herd of horses loose in the canyon but most of the canyon horses perished. Fortunately Marrissa and her family are safe. This is absolutely every horse owners worst nightmare

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First off I want to thank everyone that has commented, prayed, messaged, and donated. I appreciate it more than you guys will ever know. I’m sorry there’s just so many notifications I can’t personally respond to everyone for last last shred of sanity. But just know I read them all and it makes me feel less alone.

If you are not up to reading some dark and depressing shit please don’t continue on.

I got back to the property today and the best way I can describe it is rural Chernobyl. It’s awful. It’s devastating to see what my poor horses went through. I’m going to describe what happened that night. Idk why but I need to for myself. But I will say first that all five bodies have been found and they were all on the hillside they ran up. It appears they ran up and down trying to get out. The unrecognizable horse behind the shed where Ava made it through at was a gelding and it unfortunately has to be Brego.

This all first started in the late morning. It was rapid but not large at first. I had worked that night before and worked again that night. I stayed up till 2pm to check how stable it was. It didn’t seem to be heading our way. Kelseys husband was home and hooked up to go and watching and it wasn’t a need to evacuate right now. The neighbor is a 20 year fire fighter and was listening to the scanners and going to call if things changed. The winds were going the other way and it had to jump the highway and creek to get there. So I went to sleep and left my phone on loud. Shortly after my shower to get ready for work we got the evacuation warning (so not a get out now a get ready to go) for the canyon next to us. Matt and I left right away and called off work. It was supposed to be plenty of time since we had a two canyons before us. We loaded the first round of horses and then five minutes later the cops come rolling through saying it’s coming over the ridge and will be here in minutes. There was never even time for an evacuation warning. The fire fighter neighbor didn’t even have time to call he had to throw his shoes on and get his kids into the car and go. The glow starts become visible. Matt and I rush to hook my trailer up. I drive it up the hill frantically and Matt drives his truck up. I whistled for my horses and could only see them from their eye shine and my head lamp. Brego lets me halter him right away. The others were very skittish and running. I figured I would load the two broodmares and lead Brego from my truck and the rest would follow. I try to load them but the fire tornado (called a firestorm and omg I’ve only seen that stuff in movies before). My truck was named Balrog from the fire demon in LOTR and it looked just like that coming over the mountains at us. I screamed at Matt to take the truck and go. He asked which truck and I told him his since mine had the trailer and it would take longer and not to be safe with panicking people to back up down the steep drive. I knew I was going to lose my truck. I grabbed and ran Ava, Brego, and Firefly down the hill and most of the long road of the property. Cops were evacuating themselves behind us. We seemed to have the horses boxed in and heading straight on the road to get out. I was getting so tired and Brego and Firefly were trotting and pulling me along as fast as they could trot. I couldn’t keep up with them anymore and had to let go or be dragged. All around us fire was seemingly falling from the sky and the hills surrounding, not just from the fire tornado, were catching fire and fanning out fast. It was circled all around. At the moment that it met up to throw flames over the road ahead of us the horses turned and ran up the hill to the second house on the property. I was screaming and losing it. I knew it was over when they turned up to the house. Matt was yelling at me to get in the truck. We drove down the road with flames overhanging onto the road. Meanwhile the trailers coming to get my horses were at the entrance to the canyon and had to turn back from the fire. We were so close.

Matt was amazing that night because I absolutely lost my shit while he took me to my parents house. After we got there we went back out with all of us. The brother in law had got cut off and trapped out there and had to wait in a barren field for the fire to blow past and then went to the only standing house left. The house that the horses ran to burned to the brick stove. We tried to get back since the fire had already come through. We convince a cop to let us through after getting turned around many times. He said one patch of the road was on fire but after that it looked clear. There was a fire truck that lead us through and if not for it I think we would of died. I have a video my step mom took while I drove. Downed trees, flaming shooting over the road, the whole earth glowing coals or shooting flames, sometimes smoke so thick I couldn’t see the road or anything but a faint out line of the tail lights in front of us. When we got to the canyon road to where the horses were it was so on fire there’s no way we could get in. I was scared the whole time following the fire truck through that our tires would melt and we’d be stranded in the fire.

Walking the property today was just unreal. The fire tornado picked up heavy metal building pieces and threw them a thousand feet away. Everything was black. There was NO rhyme or reason for what burned and what didn’t. Every person that I have talked to has said this is something entirely different than what they’ve seen. It shouldn’t of happened this way. My truck and trailer are literally just metal frames. It’s shocking. The tack inside is lumps of black. All the ribbons and the saddle pad I won with Brego. All the horse papers are gone.

I have many regrets. I have images and scenes that just constantly replay in my mind. Constantly thinking if I had just done this one thing or that one thing different I might have them all now. I’m so upset that they had to die that way. I feel so guilty. Sometimes I wish I had stayed in the fire with them. It’s a nightmare I can’t wake up from and it’s so hard to wrap my mind around this is my life now. Things can be replaced but lives can’t. I would trade all of my possessions to have them. I had so hoping to find Brego alive today. I don’t know how many heart horses you get in a lifetime but I’m especially crushed to lose the horse I’ve done everything with. He would of done anything for me and he was with me through all my major life moments. I just don’t know how to live my life after all of this loss.

After seeing the devastation today I can’t believe Ava survived what she did. I’m so grateful that Ava and all of us people made it out. I saw her again today and she’s so perky and sassy. Throwing her food tub around and demanding it be filled. She has ulcers in her eyes limiting her vision but she perks up every time someone walks in the room. She nickered to me when I walked in tonight. Having her to focus on helps me take my mind off the best friends I lost for moments.

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