RAJKOT: It had been an odd distress call directly in the afternoon to its Rajkot fire brigade employees on Thursday when they had been requested to rescue a horse which got trapped neck-deep in sand.
It was to be an abandoned horse which dropped into about eight-foot profound sludge at Aji river nearby Raj Rajeshwari temple at the area of Vora Bridge at Rajkot.
Temple priest Balvant Gosai watched the distressed creature and promptly known as Ranjit Mundhwa, a neighborhood pioneer, for support.
Mundhwa known as the fire brigade staff, who unmindful of those dangers actually waded deep in the wreck to rescue the poor creature’s lifestyle.
The successful rescue assignment was fraught with risk not just for the creature, but also for the people too, since they needed to fight both sludge and the poisonous effluents of this Aji river.
The perils of this 45-minute rescue procedure ended in tears and joy literally, together with all the horse pleased to be living, but also the architect of this assignment, fireman Shailesh Khakkhar, becoming hospitalized to the migraines he received out of being subjected to the poisonous waste.
“The horse should have been grazing across the river before it dropped to the sludge and got trapped at the 8-foot deep sand and could not emerge by itself.
It was a tricky operation for those employees because the horse is thick and in the procedure, that the rescuer too can get stuck at the sludge.
Khakkar, with the support of the tubing employed in water saving operations, was able to slip towards the distressed creature and tied it with a rope and then pulled out,” Mundhwa told TOI.
Khakkhar, meanwhile, needed to visit the hospital by the migraines he obtained in his courageous effort, at which he received treatment and is now performing nicely.