A barn fire at Julie Curtin’s New Vintage Farm in Woodstock, Ga., claimed the lives of 15 horses late yesterday evening.
Pablo Aguilar, Tito Aguilar, Jose Felix Vega Mendoa and Antonio Hernandez Ortiz, four longtime grooms who live at the Woodstock, Ga., hunter jumper barn, smelled smoke around midnight last night, Nov. 26, and immediately went down to find a the barn burning. They called the fire department and started evacuating the barn. They managed to get 20 horses out, but 15 perished, as well as two miniature donkeys and a Chihuahua. No humans died.
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