From Deseret News archives:
Utah graduate escapes San Diego fire with her family and horse
Knowing that a wind-driven fire was approaching, she started contemplating alternative ways to safety for herself and her husband, Joe, their 2-year-old son, Joey, and her horse. She was pulling the horse trailer while her husband and son were in a car behind her.
Sharing the experience while caring for her horse at an evacuation center Wednesday afternoon, she said she thought, "(If) I see flames, what will I do?" She answered herself, "I'll get on the horse with my son and ride out."
With her family safe, she was able to relate with humor her escape plan that she didn't have to employ, adding that her husband was a good athlete and could run out. A champion barrel racer, she was confident she could ride familiar trails in the area to safety.
But she didn't have to as she and her family turned out of the traffic on the main escape route and took another highway where threatening flames were closer but traffic was less heavy.
E-mail: ghill@desnews.com
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