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  • From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] First responders
  • Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:59:07 -0500

There is a tape from US Riders about it, around 20 minutes. I have a copy.
Around here non-commercial haulers are the greatest threat to horses on the
road. The commercial haulers with big rigs are either hauling racehorses
(with people in the back) or stock to the New Holland Auction, or once a
year or so rodeo stock or circus stock. The owner hauler is the only one
who goes out on the road with uninspected rigs, no spare tires, no tools,
and no road service provider. NJ and Maryland do not require annual
mechanical inspections of non-commercial horse trailers as Pennsylvania
does. We have been getting icy ponds and bogs lately, must be the weather
change. It is also the relative lack of accidents around here that make it
a skill for MSAR personnel. The local VFC has too many things to do now, let
alone training for a once a year or less incident, except possibly along an
Interstate. The packing plants in this area loose maybe one load year and
then usually only part of it, but a couple of hundred pigs do really foul up
traffic.

We do have an excellent structural rescue, auto rescue, and building
collapse program for the VFC through the regional fire academies. But with
fewer and fewer real farms in this area many of the volunteers have never
seen a live horse or a cow outside of a zoo or an expo. And show daddies or
mommies are the worst horse trailer drivers you have ever seen, particularly
after the kid finished out of the ribbons.

Irv Lichtenstein





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