A horse and its rider had to be rescued after getting stuck in the mud near the Santa Ana River Sunday in Riverside County, authorities confirmed to KTLA.
It’s unclear if the horse and rider were going off trail in the area when they got stuck, but crews with the Riverside County Fire Department responded to the 2700 block of Shadow Canyon Circle in Eastvale at around 1:40 p.m. on reports of a horse in the river.
While an animal rescue team from the city of Norco was dispatched to help with the rescue, an RCFD helicopter was deployed to assist in the search for the rider, authorities said in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
Just before 4:30 p.m., officials said the rider had been located and was uninjured, and that rescue teams had “entered the wash” and were able to pull the horse from the mud.
Authorities did not say if the animal was injured during the incident.
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