Animal Rescuer Caught In 117 Fire: "you Name It, I Tried To Get It Out"

Animal Rescuer Eryn Maggard estimates she herded 50 of her animals into her 2000 Nissan Frontier in a span of just minutes on Tuesday when she saw the flames of the 117 fire coming toward her home on De Groot Road. With her two children, several rabbits, chickens, nine cats, eight kittens, a Great Dane, a litter of puppies, and a few more dogs in the SUV, she drove north, busting through two barbed-wire fences to get to safety. "You name it, I tried to get it out," said Maggard, who, with her husband Mark, owns GingerSnap Ranch. Despite her efforts, she returned home with her family around midnight that day to find the blaze had taken 16 of her goats, a pot-bellied pig named Bella and a litter of five piglets. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette