As wildfires swept Los Angeles County, a 29 year old horseman named Jacob Deutsch used his ten horse rig and social media to evacuate more than 90 horses and other animals to safety in 2025.

After seven Bashkir horses crashed through thin pond ice in rural Russia, a farmer used his tractor’s lifting jib and careful teamwork to pull every one of them out in 2020.

During California’s Easy Fire near Simi Valley, a black horse was caught on camera returning through smoke to a burning paddock, then squeezing through a fence gap to guide two other horses out to the road in 2019.

In subzero temperatures in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, a loose mustang later nicknamed Jack was hauled from a frozen lake by neighbors using ropes and nylon straps when heavy equipment could not safely reach him in 2022.

In Lake Elsinore, California, a twelve year old miniature horse named Butter was sedated, slung, and lifted to safety by firefighters and vets after plunging into a sixty foot well in 2024.

When a 22 year old quarter horse named Sly fell through the ice on a Saratoga Springs farm pond, his owner and a small army of neighbors and officers pulled together to haul him out alive in 2025.