Horse safely pulled from canal after accident at Black Country Living Museum
A horse belonging to the Black Country Living Museum fell into a canal during a boat pulling practice session.
The unfortunate incident happened yesterday at 3.10pm on the canal behind the museum off Dudley Road, in Tipton.
The fire service had to be called to lift the horse, called Danny, out of the water.
The 14-year-old horse slipped while they were trying out a new programme of attractions which include horse drawn boats.
Laura Wakelin, director of communications and marketing at the museum, said: "We are preparing for a new programme, on which is boat pulling.
"They were practising when one of our horses unfortunately slipped and fell into the canal.
"He was with two of our horse handlers, and one of them, Chris Turton, actually jumped in with him to try and help."
They immediately called the fire service for assistance.
Danny is now safely back on dry land with no injuries.
A spokesman said: "We got a call at 3.11pm to a report that a horse was in the canal.
"Lifting equipment was used by the technical rescue team.
"The owner was in attendance and we were able to leave the incident at 3.35pm."
