My Mom, Patricia Corless who resides in Fresno, CA informed me about this human interest story. I live in Las Vegas, NV where the Bureau of Land Management is getting rid of the wild horses here.

Telegraph fire's horse rescuer needs help, too
08/07/08 00:00:00
I don't know if he will ever see this in The Bee, but I want to publicly thank Jon Currie of Mariposa for saving all the horses that he could from the Telegraph wildfire.
I have spent a lot of my years around Oakhurst and Bass Lake and horses, and also had to flee a fire in that area.
Jon Currie lost his home saving animals that had no way of saving themselves.
I hope someone will have the finances to help this man with a mobile home, so he can live on his property once again.
Marie Delarm
Getting animals out alive from Telegraph fire
One resident sacrifices his home to save four-legged neighbors.
By Barbara Anderson / The Fresno Bee
07/29/08 23:22:28
MARIPOSA -- Digger doesn't like his stable companion -- a large quarter horse -- at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds, but owner Doral Mosher is just happy to find his old gray donkey alive.
Mosher, 87, had released Digger from his pen Saturday as flames were about to engulf the longtime family homestead on Mosher Road.
"I could see the fire and when I could see it starting on my 40 acres, I got out of there," Mosher said. He saw Digger trot away.
Mosher was among hundreds of Telegraph fire evacuees who left behind animals as they fled flames that have charred almost 30,000 acres -- 46 square miles -- and destroyed at least 21 homes and 32 outbuildings in the past five days. Fire officials said Monday that 25 homes had been destroyed, but revised that figure on Tuesday.
Mosher laughed as he was reunited with Digger on Tuesday. He found the 15-year-old donkey among at least 300 evacuated animals housed in stalls and pens at the fairgrounds. "That's old Digger," he said, offering the mule a carrot he pulled from his hip pocket.
About 3,500 firefighters and support staff are battling the raging blaze, which was only 15% contained Tuesday night. A dozen minor injuries have been reported since the fire broke out Friday. Cal Fire officials would not estimate when they would get full containment.
About 4,000 residences in the communities of Midpines, Briceburg, Mariposa, Greeley Hill, Coulterville, Bear Valley and Mount Bullion remained threatened by the blaze Tuesday. Roads in a mandatory evacuation area are Texas Hill Road, Dogtown Road from Texas Hill Road to Schilling Road, Schilling Road to Highway 49 and Michaeloaks Road with road closure beginning at Highway 49. Highway 140 into Yosemite National Park remained closed.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. restored power Tuesday afternoon to hundreds of homes and businesses that lost electricity because of the fire, a utility spokesman said.
More than 500 customers north of Mariposa along Highway 140 between Indian Flat and El Portal, plus others, had power restored by 5 p.m., said spokesman Jeff Smith.
PG&E is moving another mobile generator into Mariposa County and hopes to provide some power today to Yosemite National Park, Smith said.
Restaurants, grocery stores and hotel lobbies in Yosemite have been getting by on backup generators.
PG&E shut down power lines into Yosemite on Saturday because of the potential risk to firefighters working beneath the wires. Then the fire brought down a transmission line that carries electricity to the park.
Cal Fire Capt. Cheryl Goetz said she couldn't estimate when any of the evacuees could go home. The fire was spreading toward Greeley Hill to the northwest and toward the Stanislaus National Forest and El Portal to the northeast. About 30 homes in Greeley Hill were under mandatory evacuation; El Portal residents were advised to evacuate.
About 150 people attended a community meeting Tuesday night at Mariposa County High School, where many made it clear they would like to return to their homes. Goetz cautioned them of the danger of new flare-ups and said power and telephone service needed to be restored before evacuees could return.
Debby McLain was among those eager to return, saying she had visited her home Tuesday and saw no flames nearby. She said she didn't need power and telephone service because she has a cell phone and a generator.
"I just want to go home," she said, under her breath.
Until residents can go back, their animals are safe at the fairgrounds, said Capt. Byron Robles of the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department.

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Doral Mosher, 87, left, didn't think he would see his donkey, Digger, again, but the animal was saved from the Telegraph fire by neighbor Jon Currie, center. The animal is now at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds.