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Dive Team and Firefighters Rescue Four Horses From Icy Michigan Pond

Dispatchers coordinated divers with firefighters from several agencies to pull the animals from shallow water.

Overview

  • Emergency crews were called at 8:40 a.m. Sunday to Turtle Creek Golf Course in Newton Township near Burlington.
  • The horses escaped their enclosure and fell through thin ice on a pond at the course.
  • ALURT divers entered the water while firefighters assisted on shore to remove each animal.
  • Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch Authority directed the multi-agency response.
  • All four horses reached shore for evaluation, and no injuries were reported among responders.