Trench Down To Couple Hundred meters to Rescue Horses Near McBride

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 McBride BC-  One of the many McBride area residents who have banded together to dig a trench more than a kilometre long in the alpine of the Renshaw region near that community, says they are within a couple of hundred meters of finishing a trench in the six to seven foot snow to lead two starving horses to safety.  The animals  were stranded in the area and were close to death.

 DeanSchreiber  has been working on the trench with his sons in an effort to get the horses to a hard packed area where they can either be led out the remaining 25 kilometres, or taken by a groomer to safety below.  Wife Allison says Dean will be back on the scene again Tuesday morning.   The family  was supposed to head to Calgary  early tomorrow for Christmas, but they are  delaying the trip  because Dean and the family want to finish what they started.

There was a turnout of 23 to 24 people today including a group of snowmobilers who came upon the digging today and offered a hand. "We still need a hand" said Allison Schreiber who operates a guest house in the area. "We would like to get finished tomorrow with the help of more volunteers before a storm hits the area filling in the trench".

Temperatures have hovered around -30 in the area where the group of volunteers has been working frantically since last Friday to free the horses from what would surely have been a snowy grave.

A veterinarian from Prince George who inspected the horses last Friday said the animals were a condition 2 , which meant that they would have not be able to survive in the six ft snow banks for very long had the people of the region not come to the rescue.

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