By Associated Press - Thursday, September 4, 2014

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - Three horses are safe after being rescued from a pair of narrow trenches near Loveland.

Firefighters from the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority got some help from a nearby construction crew in freeing the animals on Wednesday. The workers from American Civil Constructors, who had been repairing a flood damaged road, used an earth mover to dig the horses out.

Firefighters lowered a dividing board so two horses near the earth mover wouldn’t be able to see the work being done.



The Loveland Reporter-Herald (https://bit.ly/1unzQ8S ) reports that none of the horses were injured during the rescue west of Horsetooth Mountain Park, which lasted more than three hours.

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