{"id":245678,"date":"2026-07-17T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:02:12","slug":"pony-rescued-after-getting-trapped-in-muddy-berks-county-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245678\/","title":{"rendered":"Pony rescued after getting trapped in muddy Berks County creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Brecknock Township fire crews were called to rescue a pony in distress Wednesday evening in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BTFC72\/posts\/pfbid0aR5gZwUZzYcF7r6kkuKBGKT1K64wi3k2cmZ4zRGtKjJ41CBVtTuAjAigcnX4AKm1l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fire department<\/a> worked with multiple other agencies to rescue a roughly 800-pound pony that had gotten trapped in a muddy creek.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Brecknock Township fire crews were called to rescue a pony in distress Wednesday evening in Berks County. (Brecknock Township Volunteer Fire Department)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/77d85e95-86f7-419b-94ad-6d4904236da3-Pony1.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brecknock Township fire crews were called to rescue a pony in distress Wednesday evening in Berks County. (Brecknock Township Volunteer Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show crews hoisting the pony from the creek with the help of large equipment and what appeared to be a thick piece of wood. <\/p>\n<p>The fire department credited all responding agencies who worked together to safely rescue the pony.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents like this remind us that not every emergency involves a fire or vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Brecknock volunteers also praised its staff for always being ready to answer any call, even rescuing animals in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Brecknock Township fire crews were called to rescue a pony in distress Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-245678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}