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Equine Evac Comes to the Rescue Again
Horse Sense-itive Equine Evac, an all volunteer program that started back in the 1990 Painted Cave Fire, is a Santa Barbara based organization formed to give aid, rescue, and care for large animals displaced in times of emergency. During the Tea Fire, they took in a total of 60 horses, 5 goats and 1 llama. When an family, without a trailer and under mandatory evacuation, was forced to leave their horse behind on Mountain Dr. volunteer and founding member Kathy O'Connor was not only able to reach the animal with a trailer but when the horse refused to get in the trailer, O'Connor walked the animal through smoke and burning embers and out to safety. In between emergencies Equin Evac meets regularly to train and prepare for the next event including practice for trailer accidents and airlift rescues. Equine Evac offer its services free of charge and relies on trained volunteers, donations of feed, medicine, various equipment, and funding. Donations of time, money are always welcome and the organization is looking for help starting and maintaining a Web site to provide updates in times of emergencies and general information on how to stay prepared. Contact Kathy O'Connor at 805-680-5878 with inquiries.
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Where did they get that info about the evac warnings being lifted? Montecito Fire, SB County and KEYT all updated at around 12:30 and it looks like the evac orders and warnings are still in place.
It would be great if they have been lifted, but they didn't list a source at Planet Santa Barbara, so I'm just wondering....
Native1 (anonymous profile)
November 15, 2008 at 12:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It appears that Planet Santa Barbara is correct. The County of SB info page on the fire has the evacuation area as contracted quite a bit, and they no longer list any areas as under evacuation warning.
https://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/oes0.aspx...
oisin (anonymous profile)
November 15, 2008 at 3:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Two classes of caution issued by County EOC (which, in the harmonious spirit of our time is now flacking as the "Joint Information Center"):
* Evacuation WARNINGS (which are lifted)
* MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDERS (still in place).
-- Randy
randy (Randy Campbell)
November 15, 2008 at 4:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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