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Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable
Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable Rich Banca of Franklin Lakes had insurance on the Orange County, N.Y. barn where a fire this past weekend killed two dozen horses, but it was likely the owners of each of the victims didn't. “It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Banca told The Times Herald-Record. One horse fled the fire, then inexplicably returned to the Mount Hope Training Center stable and was killed with the others, said Banca, who trains harness racers who run at the Meadowlands, Yonkers Raceway and elsewhere. Nearly a dozen companies responded to the 3 a.m. fire Saturday after a center employee …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's NY Stable Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's NY Stable
Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's NY Stable Rich Branca of Franklin Lakes had insurance on the Orange County, N.Y. barn where a weekend fire killed two dozen horses, but it was likely the owners of each of the victims didn't. “It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Banca told The Times Herald-Record. One horse fled the fire, then inexplicably returned to the Mount Hope Training Center stable and was killed with the others, said Banca, who's owned the center nearly a dozen years and trains harness racers who run at the Meadowlands, Yonkers Raceway and elsewhere. Nearly a dozen companies responded to the 3 a.m. fir…

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by Kathy Reakes
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28 Horses Killed In Orange County, N.Y. Barn Fire 28 Horses Killed In Orange County, N.Y. Barn Fire
28 Horses Killed In Orange County, N.Y. Barn Fire Twenty-eight horses are dead after a large fire broke out at a Hudson Valley farm on Saturday morning. The barn is located behind the Mount Hope Training Center just north of I-84 in Orange County. A GoFundMe page has been set up to assist the two trainers affected by the fire. A barn worker saw the barn was on fire around 3 a.m., when he got up to feed the horses, according to the New York Post. He said the horses were "crying like babies." Not one could be saved. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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by Cecilia Levine