{"id":75173,"date":"2025-12-31T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75173\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:27:08","slug":"horse-rescued-after-falling-into-creek-in-central-berks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75173\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse rescued after falling into creek in central Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A horse was rescued after falling into a creek in Ruscombmanor Township on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>One of the animals at Hobby Horse Ranch on Hartz Road reportedly fell through the ice into a creek, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor noticed the horse and called emergency services shortly after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports said the horse fell through the ice into a pond, but emergency crews said the horse was found lying in a small creek.<\/p>\n<p>Water rescue personnel were called to the scene. They tried to remove the horse with a skid loader, but weren\u2019t making progress.<\/p>\n<p>V&amp;M Towing Service in Ontelaunee Township was contacted and brought a rotator tow truck to remove the horse. The horse was removed from the waterway and was lying down in a nearby field at about 4:12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was unavailable on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horse was rescued after falling into a creek in Ruscombmanor Township on Wednesday afternoon. One of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,3138,128,130,129,289],"class_list":["post-75173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pets-and-animals","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75173","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=75173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}