December 21st, 2008, MERS 24th Call of the year to Innsbrook Village

Updated at December 29, 2008 11:11

On the evening of Sunday, December 21st, MERS responded to a call @ 8:00pm to the Innsbrook Village Stables, just south of Wright City, Mo.  The outside temperature was 4 degrees, with a wind chill of  negative 15 degrees. We deployed per the request of a veterinarian that was on the scene of a horse that had been down in a frozen pasture for some time. Upon our arrival the horse showed little signs of life. We immediately got our generator turned on, lighted the area with our floodlights, and placed our propane heater in close proximity to the horse. The pasture was a dirt pasture that had been muddy at one time, now was completely frozen with rock hard craters everywhere.  Using our special rescue webbing, we placed the webbing around the front and back of the horse, were able to lift the horse up into an upright position, with the assistance of a tractor. After about 10 minutes of massaging the lifeless horses muscles, and with the heater on the horse, the horse started coming back to life! Within 10 minutes the horse was responding well enough to release our equipment from the horse. We then assisted the horse to the barn(the horse actually trotted back to the barn). MERS stayed on the scene while the veterinarian continued to access the horse.

As of the evening of December 22nd, the horse is still doing great and recovering quite rapidly! MERS collectively totalled up 500 miles responding to the scene, and our members got back home at midnight.

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