I called them today to see if they were in need of donations, and the lady with whom I spoke said yes. Here is their contact information:Barn fire at therapy center leaves 6 horses dead
PLEASANT HILL, Missouri - A barn fire at a horse boarding stable left 6 horses dead early Sunday morning. Three other horses were able to escape the barn.
The fire broke out at the Sugar Creek Equinapy Center at the Pine Dell Farm in Pleasant Hill, Mo. around 6 a.m.
"By the time we got here the fire trucks were all over the place," said instructor Amy O'Neal.
Sugar Creek Equinapy Center helps autistic and disabled people aged 4 to 25 through equitherapy.
Equitherapy is treatment that involves using horses to improve people's balance, coordination and motor skills. Organizers were gearing up to start spring therapy sessions.
"Instead of physical therapy and riding were probably going to do a lot of emotional therapy and counseling in that regard and try to go from there," said O’Neal.
Not all horses at the facility were killed in the blaze.
No people were hurt in the fire. Several children with autism will go without their much needed therapy. Jim Lysaght's 6 year old daughter went to horse therapy twice a week.
"I don't think it's totally set in in my daughters eyes, but were not going to concentrate too much on the past we'll truck forward," said Lysaght.
The cause of the fire is unknown and there isn't a damage estimate available yet. The Missouri Fire Marshall is investigating the fire.
For information on how to help out, go to sugarcreekequinapy.org .
Sugar Creek Equinapy
19909 E. 175th Street
Pleasant Hill, MO 64080
1+816-824-4968
I noticed their website has PayPal set up. Sugar Creek is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization.
According to another news story, Sugar Creek suffered a similar devastating loss in March of 2005 -- another barn fire in which 10 horses were lost. Electrical problems were suspected in that '05 fire.
2 comments:
Actually i'd like to correct that it wasn't SUGAR CREEK hat suffered the loss in 2005 it was PINE DELL FARM the place that SUGAR CREEK boards their horses at. I'd also like to add a woman who lived int he apartment lost her home and all her belongings. This was a horrible horrible day for everyone.
Another correction, there were not 3 horses that "escaped"; There were over 20 horses evacuated from the blazing barn thanks to the staff and a volunteer passerby. Also the 2005 "was not" electrical, the cause is unknown except that the area where the blaze started contained no electrical units. Just some clarification. Thank you all for your thought and prayers-
Pine Dell Farm
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