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MOUNT WILSON -- Using ropes pulleys and slings. ten Los Angeles County firefighters, Friday, pulled a seven year old mare out of a ditch off a steep mountain trail after the horse fell in during a late afternoon ride.
The horse named Shiva, and its owner, Donna Klein, walked away unscathed.
"We got the horse back with its owner, and they walked out onto the trail and back to the trailer," said County fire spokesman Mark Whaling. "A vet looked at it and gave it a clean bill of health."
The 5:38 PM. accident occurred when the horse slipped on a slope in Eaton Canyon on a narrow mountain trail, tumbled into a natural ditch and got wedged against a wooden wall put up to halt erosion.
Whaling said Klein held tight onto Shivas tail to keep the animal from falling further down the mountainside.
"I think what she did was pretty miraculous, by holding the horse like that and keeping it calm," Whaling said. "The horse could have fallen 100 feet to her death.
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