Only three evacuated horses were being held at Shay Meadows Ranch on Wednesday, which has held as many as 40 before, according to Jana Taylor, the ranch’s owner. “We’re a member of the community,” Taylor said. Now only two weeks from retirement with the ranch’s sale pending, Taylor was ready to scale her life down, reducing her number of personal horses from eight to just two.īut having been around horses her entire life, she always considered it a no-brainer to lend a helping hand to the local equestrian community over the years. “We’re not worried (about the Radford fire),” Taylor said. While she has taken in as many as 40 refugee horses, on Wednesday, she only had three, Taylor said. Her ranch can board as many as 75 horses, with unlimited overflow permitted during emergencies, Taylor said. Many go to Shay Meadow Ranch, the largest horse boarding ranch in Bear Valley, according to Jana Taylor, the ranch’s owner of 28 years. With horseback riding being popular in Bear Valley, many evacuees are faced with finding a place to board their horses. “But we’re not losing business (right now).” “When we get a real catastrophe up here, which we sometimes do, it does ruin business,” Carlson said. Having been in business for 30 years, Carlson understands both the panic and precaution of impending wildfires comes with the territory of living and working in the San Bernardino Mountains, he said. ![]() “Anyone who is open is making money,” Carlson said as he laid some fresh ink on a customer’s back. Bill Carlson, the owner of Big Bear Tattoo, saw the temporary commercial vacuum as an opportunity for business. The tension caused by flame-flecked hills to the south of Big Bear Lake didn’t stop all business as usual. More than 470 fire personnel continued to work the Radford fire, receiving help from air resources in hot and dry conditions, forest officials said Wednesday morning.
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