I received this via e-mail this morning, and I thought it would be wise to pass along to you all:
Event rider Peter Green saves facility and 16 horses
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On January 12th event rider Peter Green saved my entire barn / indoor complex from burning to the ground. Peter Green's selfless bravery and quick thinking (along with that of my farrier - Levi) prevented the possible deaths of 16 horses and my entire life going up in flames!!! At the expense of his F350 dually I might add. Talk about knowing how to think under pressure!
It was 2pm and I was in the house changing while my farrier (Levi) and my farm manager (Julie) were up at the barn. She had just returned to the barn after dumping the last of the stall cleanings in the manure pile. She parked our Polaris Ranger (yes turned it off!)about two feet from the barn and went inside to get a horse ready to show to a potential buyer.
Peter Green had been driving by my farm and he turned around and came flying up my driveway. He had seen from the road what no one else had noticed a huge cloud of black smoke. AND had cared enough to come to help!! How many people would have just kept on driving thinking we had everything under control!
Our Polaris had somehow caught on fire and was entirely engulfed in flames about 25 feet high (sitting about 2 feet from the barn) and had started to catch the barn on fire. He drove up behind the ranger and pushed it out of the way with his truck to a safe 15 feet from the barn while the thing was still burning with flames 20 feet in the air!!!
He then ran inside and grabbed a fire extinguisher, sprinted upstairs to the loft and calmly put out the fire that was already burning in the rafters. All the time kept everyone here calm enough to deal with the situation intelligently.
After that was done and we could hear fire trucks on the way we went outside while the roof was still smoldering and there is his truck with flames now under the hood. His using his truck to push the flaming ranger out of the way had caught his truck on fire!!! His truck ended up with the entire thing turning into slag also.
I was pretty useless (unless you count crying hysterically the whole time!)except for trying to move horses out of the barn. Levi had to move several of the horses including one esp. fractious recently gelded BIG guy out of the stalls. Plus running buckets of water and putting out flames on the side of the barn. Julie was the only one to coax one of the FEI ponies out of her burning stall.
The potential buyer of the horse directed fire companies up the drive and caught one horse that had gotten loose. When everything was over with all the horses and people were safe, all fires out, everything done except the cleanup she said Oh having a Fire Sale today?
Thank God for Peter Green and Levi!!
OK so now we have the fire department coming in for training on how to use fire extinguishers. Plus NO parking of any vehicles near the barn.
A word of caution to everyone. Know how to use those things that the insurance company makes us have (prior to this I thought they were pretty useless since I never needed one before!) I know how stupid can I be right! We are going out today to replace the used ones and buy additional ones. The only reason I had them here was that my insurance company said I needed them. Thank God for so many things working in our favor and esp for Peter Green.
I guess we now get to see how that good that insurance through USEF is!!
Forever thank you Peter and Levi!!!
Event rider Peter Green saves facility and 16 horses
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On January 12th event rider Peter Green saved my entire barn / indoor complex from burning to the ground. Peter Green's selfless bravery and quick thinking (along with that of my farrier - Levi) prevented the possible deaths of 16 horses and my entire life going up in flames!!! At the expense of his F350 dually I might add. Talk about knowing how to think under pressure!
It was 2pm and I was in the house changing while my farrier (Levi) and my farm manager (Julie) were up at the barn. She had just returned to the barn after dumping the last of the stall cleanings in the manure pile. She parked our Polaris Ranger (yes turned it off!)about two feet from the barn and went inside to get a horse ready to show to a potential buyer.
Peter Green had been driving by my farm and he turned around and came flying up my driveway. He had seen from the road what no one else had noticed a huge cloud of black smoke. AND had cared enough to come to help!! How many people would have just kept on driving thinking we had everything under control!
Our Polaris had somehow caught on fire and was entirely engulfed in flames about 25 feet high (sitting about 2 feet from the barn) and had started to catch the barn on fire. He drove up behind the ranger and pushed it out of the way with his truck to a safe 15 feet from the barn while the thing was still burning with flames 20 feet in the air!!!
He then ran inside and grabbed a fire extinguisher, sprinted upstairs to the loft and calmly put out the fire that was already burning in the rafters. All the time kept everyone here calm enough to deal with the situation intelligently.
After that was done and we could hear fire trucks on the way we went outside while the roof was still smoldering and there is his truck with flames now under the hood. His using his truck to push the flaming ranger out of the way had caught his truck on fire!!! His truck ended up with the entire thing turning into slag also.
I was pretty useless (unless you count crying hysterically the whole time!)except for trying to move horses out of the barn. Levi had to move several of the horses including one esp. fractious recently gelded BIG guy out of the stalls. Plus running buckets of water and putting out flames on the side of the barn. Julie was the only one to coax one of the FEI ponies out of her burning stall.
The potential buyer of the horse directed fire companies up the drive and caught one horse that had gotten loose. When everything was over with all the horses and people were safe, all fires out, everything done except the cleanup she said Oh having a Fire Sale today?
Thank God for Peter Green and Levi!!
OK so now we have the fire department coming in for training on how to use fire extinguishers. Plus NO parking of any vehicles near the barn.
A word of caution to everyone. Know how to use those things that the insurance company makes us have (prior to this I thought they were pretty useless since I never needed one before!) I know how stupid can I be right! We are going out today to replace the used ones and buy additional ones. The only reason I had them here was that my insurance company said I needed them. Thank God for so many things working in our favor and esp for Peter Green.
I guess we now get to see how that good that insurance through USEF is!!
Forever thank you Peter and Levi!!!
) but I like to peruse the other forums for information that could prove helpful.
My first thought when hanging the barn's extinguisher was, "Now watch, if my barn catches on fire it will start in this doorway!" Sooo...went back to the hardware store and bought a back up for the house. I also have a frost free hydrant outside the barn and fenceline...so if the barn catches on fire I have a water supply outside of the flames I can use. Assuming of course that I don't pass out seeing smoke coming from my barn. 
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