Rescue workers say it took more than five hours to rescue a horse from a 12-foot sinkhole near Woodsboro. But Brooke Vrany of Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Lisbon said Tuesday the horse named Chief is doing fine despite his cold and muddy ordeal. The horse fell into a sinkhole that opened up Monday at a Creagerstown Road farm. Advanced technical rescue teams from Frederick and Carroll counties worked with area volunteer firefighters through much of the afternoon and early evening to get Chief out of the hole. They dug a ditch, got a rubber sled underneath the animal and pulled him out by hand, using a system of ropes and cables.

- Associated Press