内容摘要：In the process of making that a reality, he has rattled financial markets and worried consumers with an ever-changing lineup of import taxes. The

In the process of making that a reality, he has rattled financial markets and worried consumers with an ever-changing lineup of import taxes. The

Julia Bagan, who is part of a Facebook group called Southern California Equine Emergency Evacuation, found five horses locked in their stalls in Altadena one day after the fire. The horses huddled in a small exterior pen attached to the stalls but couldn’t entirely escape the flames.By the time a neighbor called for help and firefighters used bolt cutters to free them, one of the horses was badly hurt, Bagan said.

She drove through the remnants of the fire Wednesday night to rescue them as damaged power lines sparked overhead. She described it as “the most crazy, dangerous” evacuation she’s had yet. Almost all the houses in the area had burned when she pulled up.The injured horse, a 3-year-old black mare she decided to name after the movie Flicka, had leg burns. Her halter burned off, along with her tail and mane. The embers gave her eyes ulcers.A veterinarian at an emergency equine hospital gave the horse 50-50 odds of surviving.

“She just had no chance, getting left locked in a stall and her owners evacuating and just leaving them all there,” Bagan said.But some horse owners were ready.

When Meredith McKenzie got a notice days before of the heightened fire risk, she asked people at her barn to help evacuate her horse so she could focus on caring for her sister who has Alzheimer’s.

“Horse people are not stupid about if there’s fire coming. We’re out before it starts because once that smoke happens, the horses go nuts and go crazy,” McKenzie said. “It’s very hard to corral them because they just want to run.”“I don’t accept vaccines; it’s that easy. Because that’s where freedom of expression comes in,” said the man, Jacob Goertzen. “If we can’t make out own decisions, we don’t live in a democracy.”

Hernández, Cuauhtemoc’s health director, said outside influences affect community vaccine views.“The Mennonite population has a lot of access to social media and family members in the U.S. and Canada, where there are a lot of myths that have taken hold and many more ‘anti-vaccine’ groups than we have in Mexico,” he said.

A tractor works a field belonging to members of the Mennonite community in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Silva Rey)A tractor works a field belonging to members of the Mennonite community in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Silva Rey)