{"id":18519,"date":"2009-11-11T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/enumclaw-team-to-help-care-for-animals-in-event-of-flood\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:30:29","slug":"enumclaw-team-to-help-care-for-animals-in-event-of-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/enumclaw-team-to-help-care-for-animals-in-event-of-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Enumclaw team to help care for animals in event of flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within 10 minutes of getting a call in September from the frantic owner of an aging Arabian horse up to its neck in a marsh in Enumclaw, the Plateau-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsart.org\">Washington State Animal Response Team<\/a> was on its way.<\/p>\n<p>Greta Cook took the information and loaded rescue equipment into a truck, while Gretchen McCallum rounded up a field response team. It didn\u2019t take long before Carla Dimitriou, Bill Daugaard, Mary Ann Bentley, Romona Eller, Heidi Kuester and Patty Vanassa \u2013 along with firefighters from District No. 44, a Maple Valley tow truck and veterinarian Henry Friedlander \u2013 were helping the horse back to stable ground.<\/p>\n<p>The horse was a little hypothermic, but sustained no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe care about our animals,\u201d Gretchen McCallam said. \u201cAnd we care about everyone else\u2019s too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WASART has been tasked by King County Animal Care and Control with setting up and staffing a livestock animal shelter at the Enumclaw Expo Center in the event flooding occurs on the Green River.<\/p>\n<p>WASART has been recruiting and training volunteers from animal-related organizations that have skills to handle large animals  to help staff the Enumclaw Expo Center, under the direction of WASART Team and Operations Leaders. In addition to those with livestock-handling expertise, volunteers are also being recruited from various veterinary and veterinary-technician groups and organizations. Volunteers will supplement the already trained WASART members if shelter care is required for animals displaced in a Green River flooding. Depending on the circumstances, the shelter may need to remain open from between three weeks to several months.<\/p>\n<p>According to McCallam, many have already completed the mandatory courses and they are hoping the remainder wrap up the courses quickly so all can be  eligible to participate as members on field response teams if the Green River floods during the rainy season of November through March.<\/p>\n<p>In the group\u2019s monthly newspaper, McCallam noted, the King County Office of Emergency Management has only tasked WASART with setting up and staffing a temporary livestock shelter at the Enumclaw Expo Center if livestock is displaced by the flooding. However, the WASART board of directors anticipates some evacuations or rescues may be necessary and it would like to have sufficient personnel available.<\/p>\n<p>More information on WASART is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsart.org\">www.washingtonsart.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 10 minutes of getting a call in September from the frantic owner of an aging Arabian horse up to its neck in a marsh in Enumclaw, the Plateau-based Washington State Animal Response Team was on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18519"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}