The missing horse who got loose after running from a barn fire that killed one horse at Maffitt Lake Farms in Cumming, Iowa, on Friday night, Dec. 2, was found Sunday evening at a nearby property. The horse, Ozzie, belongs to veterinarian Dr. Rachelle LaPrade of Des Moines, Iowa.  

On the afternoon of June 3, grand prix rider and show jumping professional Aaron Vale was riding horses and teaching a student at his barn in Williston, Fla., when he noticed something odd near his home. 

“Originally I thought it was dust, because we were mowing the paddock next to the house,” Vale said.

When the dust didn’t subside, Vale drove up to the house and discovered it was on fire.

“I turned on my cellphone flashlight,” he said. “You couldn’t see six inches, the smoke was so thick. There was no way I could go in.”

Late on February 18, Kelly Felicijan was getting ready for bed after a 12-hour shift at the Geauga Medical Center in Ohio, where she works as a nurse. The last thing she expected to see when she took a final look out the window at her barn was flames.

A barn fire at Julie Curtin’s New Vintage Farm in Woodstock, Ga., claimed the lives of 15 horses late yesterday evening.

Pablo Aguilar, Tito Aguilar, Jose Felix Vega Mendoa and Antonio Hernandez Ortiz, four longtime grooms who live at the Woodstock, Ga., hunter jumper barn, smelled smoke around midnight last night, Nov. 26, and immediately went down to find a the barn burning. They called the fire department and started evacuating the barn. They managed to get 20 horses out, but 15 perished, as well as two miniature donkeys and a Chihuahua. No humans died.

When dressage rider Kristen Becker lost all four of her horses in a barn fire earlier this year, she was first faced with trying to recover from the catastrophe. Becker had been aiming for the Young Adult “Brentina Cup” Grand Prix classes in her final year of eligibility before her top mount Ramses was one of 18 killed in the fire at Brookwood Equestrian Center in Bishop, Ga.