"If it's good for equines, we support it.
If it's bad for equines, we want to help fix it."
-Elaine Nash
PAST MISSIONS
Below are some of our previous calls to action for major missions that Fleet of Angels played an instrumental role in, helping equine victims of natural disasters and other life-threatening crises.
TROPICAL DEPRESSION
IMELDA
September, 2019
To join the effort or to follow Fleet of Angels' work on this mission, please go to our Facebook page for this region.
Gulf Coast
Equine Evacuation + Disaster Response
Please help fund our work if you can.
Your contributions make
our lifesaving work possible.
September, 2019
HURRICANE DORIAN
ONE OF THE LARGEST HURRICANES IN HISTORY BEARS DOWN ON AMERICA'S EAST COAST
09-01-2019
HORSE OWNERS IN FLORIDA, GEORGIA, AND THE CAROLINAS ARE PREPARING FOR THE ARRIVAL OF HURRICANE DORIAN. THE STORM HOVERED OVER THE BAHAMAS FOR AN EXTRAORDINARILY LONG TIME, PUMMELING THE ISLAND AND ITS INHABITANTS.
BECAUSE HURRICANE DORIAN IS SO BIG AND POWERFUL, IT'S DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHERE IT'S MOST LIKELY TO MAKE LANDFALL, SO THOUSANDS OF HORSE OWNERS ARE HAVING TO PREPARE FOR THE STORM TO HEAD STRAIGHT FOR THEM.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE REGISTERED WITH US IN OUR NATIONAL EQUINE EMERGENCY DIRECTORY, OFFERING EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION, TEMPORARY STABLING, AND MANY MORE SERVICES TO HORSE OWNERS IN CRISIS. IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE EVACUATING FROM THE PATH OF HURRICANE DORIAN, CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW.
East Coast
Equine Evacuation and Disaster Response
Please help us help them.
Simply put, we can't do it without YOU!
Fleet of Angels is counted on by people to help keep their horses safe during emergencies and afterward during early stages of recovery. After the storm, we'll be needed to provide hay and emergency supplies for equine victims of the storm.
March, 2019
EMERGENCY MISSION!
BOMB
CYCLONE
STORM
ULMER
HAY BANK NEWS
Fleet of Angels is preparing to assist in the affected states by offering hay bank services and other assistance to equine victims of the storm.
If you were directly affected by this storm and are in need of emergency hay for your equines, you are welcome to SUBMIT A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE WITH HAY HERE.
Although we are not able to assist in all cases, we help in every case possible.
Please be patient after making your request. It takes time to make all the arrangements needed, establish a hay bank hosting location, and ship hay to the sites where needed. Unfortunately, we are already currently providing emergency hay services in several other parts of the country, and our volunteer teams are spread very thin. We will provide updates on new hay bank availabilities on the Fleet of Angels News page on Facebook.
For equines (horses, mules, donkeys, ponies, minis)
HEARTLAND OF AMERICA SUFFERS UNFATHOMABLE LOSSES DUE TO STORM
ANOTHER CRISIS STRIKES US EQUINES! HEAVY SNOW, RAIN, HARD WINDS, AND FLOODING HAS CAUSED TREMENDOUS DAMAGE IN MULTIPLE STATES. MANY HORSES ARE AT RISK. HAY AND SUPPLIES ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED ACROSS THE MIDWEST.
Heartland
Equine Evacuation and Disaster Response
Fleet of Angels'
CALIFORNIA FIRE
DISASTERS
Life-saving missions are being managed at
WEST COAST EQUINE EVACUATION AND ASSISTANCE
on Facebook. Click to join us there.
To offer help or request help during natural disaster events, use our:
National Equine Emergency Directory
To help fund our massive missions, please make a donation. We need your help.
Photo: Burning hay in barn
NEWS STORIES
about Fleet of Angels' work during
HURRICANES FLORENCE AND MICHAEL
Elaine Nash, you and Fleet of Angels were a God send. Without you many, many horses in Horry County, where almost all pastures and roads flooded, would have gone hungry. Local animal control gave me three bales of hay for three horses with no pasture and no way for me to get to a hay supplier. My husband lost his job and I go to school. When you learned of our need, 32 hours later myself, two friends, and the truck driver unloaded a semi load of hay late into the night. That hay was what sustained many, many horses until the floods receded some and they could get to their suppliers. As for me, my pasture flooded so badly that it is still just a dirt lot, I did see sprigs of green this past weekend- Yay! I just wanted to personally thank you and all the volunteers that make this possible. Thank you! I will always be available to help when needed as well.'
Sandy Clarke
Conway, South Carolina
SPECIAL MISSION
THE HALLELUJAH HORSES
Read about the rescue, rehab, placement and transportation of 907 unhandled, untrained wild horses to safe adoptive homes after they were seized by the State of SD from ISPMB (the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros). This is considered to be the largest rescue of horses in history, and was a factor in Fleet of Angels being honored as the recipient of the first ever ASPCA Equine Welfare Award.
SEEKING SANCTUARY
How one woman and a small group of volunteers found homes for more than 900 horses
Fleet of Angels receives prestigious equine award- the first ever ASPCA Equine Welfare Award
MISSION GOALS
FEED, TREAT, PLACE, AND TRANSPORT
907
STARVING AND NEGLECTED WILD HORSES IN NEED OF HELP
MISSION SUMMARY
In early October, 2016, Fleet of Angels Executive Director Elaine Nash received a call from the SD States Attorney, who asked her to create and manage a large national effort to find adoptive homes for 270 of the 907 starving and neglected horses that they had seized from the ISPMB facility in SD.
By mid-December that goal had been met, even though the extreme winter weather and other factors in SD made normal wild horse management processes almost impossible. Fleet of Angels partnered with Return to Freedom and other equine welfare organizations in a massive effort to raise over $150,000 to pay off a lien the two involved SD counties had on the rest of ISMPB's horses for a hay bill that had accumulated. That effort was successful, and a planned auction of the 600+ horses was cancelled.
In late January, 2017, the State of SD reached a deal with ISPMB to remove all but 20 horses from their control and all the remaining horses (over 600) were turned over to Fleet of Angels.
After adoptinng out as many horses as possible before the end of March, FOA moved the remaining 312 horses from SD to a new FOA adoption hub in Fort Collins, CO, where the effort to care for, feed, adopt, and transport the horses to safe long term homes continues as more horses are adopted and transported to new homes every week. The goal is to have every horse (adopted out in groups of two or more at time) by Thanksgiving, 2017! Teamwork works!
FOLLOW THE HH HORSES HERE
HH ADOPT FORWARD PROGRAM
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Applications for The Hallelujah Horses are now closed, and all the horses have been adopted. On occasion, however, an adopter becomes unable to keep their Hallelujah Horses. In those rare cases, we allow those horses to be adopted forward directly from the adopter's location. HH horses are adopted forward in groups or pairs only, except in special circumstances. All adopters must be approved through Fleet of Angels' application process. If you'd like to be on our waiting list to be notified if Hallelujah Horses become available, please complete the application form, below.
Thousands of people offering equine evacuation, emergency stabling, hay banks, veterinary care, farrier services, SAR, and many other emergency services can be found in the National Equine Emergency Directory. The NEED directory is designed to allow horse owners find the help they need quickly during fast-moving natural disaster events.
No matter where you are, please register in the directory ASAP so you can help if a disaster strikes in your area.
Find help during natural disasters here!
National
Equine
Emergency
Directory
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