More than a dozen horses died in a Thanksgiving morning fire that destroyed a huge Cherokee County barn.
The blaze broke out before daybreak Thursday at New Vintage Farm on Cox Road near Woodstock.
“This is just a tragedy,” Karen McGoldrick, who owns a farm in Milton, told Channel 2 Action News. “Barn fires are our worst nightmare in the business. Barns are tinder boxes because we use wood shavings, we feed horses hay. Those are all super flammable material so they tend to go very fast.”
Cherokee County fire investigators have not determined what caused the fire.
“We love our horses just as people love their dogs and cats,” McGoldrick said. “We put years and years of hard work and care into training them, so it’s a huge loss.”
According to the farm’s website, New Vintage offers horse boarding and training as well as riding instruction.
A GoFundMe page set up for the farm has raised more than $43,000 in less than a day.
Thursday’s blaze was the second barn fire in as many weeks to kill multiple horses.
On Nov. 17, four horses and a cow perished in an overnight barn fire on Bouldercrest Road on the DeKalb/Clayton county line.
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