It is something no horse owner is immune from, whether your horses are stabled or home. I’m Jeff Keane stay tuned,  I will be back after the break with some information that could save your horse. Fires,  whether barn or brush kill more horses annually than any other non medical emergency. Susan Allen’s  here to share some preventative measures to  protect our animals. Jeff the statistics are pretty daunting between   2006-2007, nearly five hundred horses  were killed by fires and countless others injured. At the recent Equine Practitioners convention they cited  the importance of having a  farm evacuation plan. Jeff the first thing folks want to do and the worst thing,is to open stall doors let horses run free, many will rush  back into the fire while others panic and run down each other or people. Remember it takes about 60 seconds to get each horse haltered and led to safety and most animals die from smoke inhalation.  Cleaning products like clipper oil and alcohol should be stored in metal containers, and there should be easy access to fire extinguishers and hoses. Don’t allow anyone EVER  to smoke in or around  horse facilities and keep an axe or chainsaw handy to open escape routes on outside walls. Of the nearly twelve thousand  ag storage facility fires each year, eighty- eighty percent contained animals. Susan we need to take fire safety seriously especially in light of the arson occurring in Australia and the fact recent US intelligence identified a website calling on Muslim extremists to light brush fires  in the U.S. as weapons of terror.