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THE MANE EVENT: Horse Rescued After Falling Through Passaic County Bridge THE MANE EVENT: Horse Rescued After Falling Through Passaic County Bridge
THE Mane Event: Horse Rescued After Falling Through Passaic County Bridge BRIDLE PARTY: Five horses were being ridden across a wooden bridge at Garret Mountain Reservation in Passaic County when the last one fell halfway through its soggy planks. What to do? The rider was OK, but all 2,500 pounds of Hank the horse was wedged in there good, Woodland Park Mayor Keith Kazmark said. He couldn't giddy up, you could say. Members of the West Paterson Volunteer Fire Department summoned Camp Towing of Wayne, which came to the rescue with a "rotator" wrecker -- essentially a huge crane. A veterinarian from his stable sedated Hank before his rescuers gently strapped him …

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by Jerry DeMarco