The Horse Refused to Leave the Floodwaters—Hours Later, Rescuers Finally Understood Why

” someone said.

“He’s scared.”

“He’s too tired to understand.”

But twenty-six-year-old rescue worker Lena Ortiz did not believe that.

Lena had grown up around horses outside San Angelo. Her father had trained them. Her mother had healed them. Lena had learned, long before she learned rescue knots or radio codes, that horses continue reading …