The recent wildfires in Colorado were devastating for the local population, with over 900 homes being lost and tens of thousands of residents being evacuated. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation, with some media outlets reporting that fire investigators are currently focusing on a property owned by a Christian fundamentalist sect after witnesses reported seeing a shed on fire on Thursday, Dec. 30th prior to the spread.
Among those evacuated were hundreds of animals, including almost one hundred horses from Standley Lake Stables in Arvada, a massive rescue effort that involved barn hands, owners, and total strangers.
“When it started to glow, and we could smell it with that wind, that’s when the panic set in for everybody,” Allie Dirks, who helped move 95 horses, eight steers and three dogs off the property, told a local news station.