SAD!!! 25 horses die in fire

[vbhoutex]

Here in Houston yesterday. This is the second time in recent history this has happened there. Last time it was 16 horses.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4104478/detail.html

[alicia-w]

very sad. wonder what happened?

[Miss Mary]

Very sad story. Wonder what started it? Shame there couldn't have been a caretaker living close to the barn.

Sounds suspicious to say the least or very careless. If this is the second blaze and 16 died in the first one.

Mary

[TexasStooge]

I have a feeling this could be arson with THAT many dead horses.

Keep us posted with any updates.

[DaylilyDawn]

Sounds very suspicious to me. What was that tractor doing in a residental neighborhood if he diddn't live in that neighborhood. There are a couple of people in my neighborhood who drive tractor trailers and they are not allowed to park their rig in their yard. One person keeps parking his rig up near my crossing where it blocks my view of oncoming traffic when I am on crossing duty. One person parked his tractor right behind the sign that said End School Zone and left it there for over a month. Deputies came and checked into who owned it after the new sheriff was sworn in recently. Turns out it is the person who live at the end of the street on the Lowry side of the nieghborhood. He lives diagonally across the road from me.

[Lindaloo]

This sickens me!! Sounds like someone needed insurance money and took out other horses too. People insure their horses and then leave them to rot away so they can collect.

[sunny]

I makes me mad to think that someone would deliberately do something like this.

[OklahomaWeather]

That is so terrible... I can't imagine losing my horse, Blaze! It crosses my mind a lot though, since I board her at a stable rather than keeping her on my own land.. What if something like that happened to her! I really feel for the owners of those poor, dear horses...

[kevin]

Thats horrible. At first I thought maybe the horses ran back into the burning barn as they are said to do, but evidently it wasn't one of those cases.

[alicia-w]

As cold as its been, it doesnt take much to start a fire like that. A questionable electrical circuit, all that fuel. Accidents happen. I certainly hope it wasnt arson, but barns and stables burn down frequently.

[vbhoutex]

As cold as its been, it doesnt take much to start a fire like that. A questionable electrical circuit, all that fuel. Accidents happen. I certainly hope it wasnt arson, but barns and stables burn down frequently.

I believe I heard in one report that it could have been electrical. What raises my suspiscions is the two fires in 6 years with major loss' both times. Just doesn't seem like after one 6 years ago that they would build it back in a way that the same thing could happen again, but like you said Alicia, accidents do happen. VERY SAD SITUATION none the less.

[Stephanie]

This sickens me!! Sounds like someone needed insurance money and took out other horses too. People insure their horses and then leave them to rot away so they can collect.

I thought of you IMMEDIATELY when I read the title because I knew this would kill you. These people should be stuck in a barn and left to die like the horses IF it is found out that it was arson.

[TexasStooge]

This sickens me!! Sounds like someone needed insurance money and took out other horses too. People insure their horses and then leave them to rot away so they can collect.

I thought of you IMMEDIATELY when I read the title because I knew this would kill you. These people should be stuck in a barn and left to die like the horses IF it is found out that it was arson.

Back in 1992, a Day Care center named "Kiddy Land" where my mom used to work at didn't completely burn down, but was just enough for that place to be out of business. I could tell it was arson, because of the severe scorching trail on the tile and carpet floor, the owner of Kiddy Land wanted to collect insurance money, but ended up arrested. Nothing else was damaged.