Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net
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> From: Jeff Forbes <forbes@vail.net>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: water tank heaters
> Date: Tuesday, November 19, 1996 11:55 AM
>
> I thought I'd send in this bit because most of us now have our tank
> heaters plugged in. I heard the saddest thing, and perhaps there's
> someone out there who knows more details because I heard it second hand,
> but there was a barn fire at a barn in Denver last week in which 12
> horses died. They think it may have been caused by a tank heater cord
> that a horse has been playing with or chewing on which caused a spark
> and subsequently the fire. People tried to lead the horses out into the
> aisleway but they were too frightened and every horse in there died of
> smoke inhalation. . . ugh. I know this is entirely possible as we had a
> horse who bit his tongue in half when he bit the cord and got an
> electric shock from the wire. (he bit through everything but the artery
> and the vet had to amputate - believe it or not, he eats just fine with
> his stump!)
>
> Please everybody be sure your heater wires are cased in flexible conduit
> or covered so we don't harm our curious equine friends!
>
> Bambi