Donation helps Nobleford Emergency Services handle livestock situations
NOBLEFORD – Nobleford and District Emergency Services has a new tool available to them, that will help protect both motorists and livestock.
Thanks to a donation from the Northern 4H Beef club in Lethbridge County last summer, the Nobleford Firefighter’s Society now has a trailer that is specially equipped to help control animals at the scene of an emergency.
“The trailer holds up to 20 panels, and they’re 12 foot long panels, and then we have two gates, four foot wide each, and those make up your corral,” explained Nobleford fire chief, Ryan Wagner. “Then we have a bunch of chains, posts, a post pounder. If we’re dealing with smaller livestock, let’s say pigs or possibly sheep, we have snow-fence available, where we can zip-tie it to the bottom of the corrals so they don’t go through the panels.
“We even have stuff like hay,” Wagner continued. “If we ever need to make the animals feel a little bit more comfortable we can put some feed down for them so they kind of calm down a little bit.”