{"id":62011,"date":"2018-08-16T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-three-injured-during-escalante-days-child-kicked-by-deputys-horse\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:06:00","slug":"update-three-injured-during-escalante-days-child-kicked-by-deputys-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-three-injured-during-escalante-days-child-kicked-by-deputys-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Three injured during Escalante Days; child kicked by deputy\u2019s horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5f3d5823-d950-413a-8302-bfdaeecf3642&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1435\" height=\"1312\" alt=\"Deputies in Montezuma County\u2019s mounted patrol cover the county and Dolores and participate in local parades and events.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Deputies in Montezuma County\u2019s mounted patrol cover the county and Dolores and participate in local parades and events.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Three injuries were reported at this year\u2019s Escalante Days, including one involving a horse with the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Mounted Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>About 11:30 a.m., a 4-year-old was kicked by the patrol horse near Flanders Park, and was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital for stitches, Sheriff Steve Nowlin said. The child was flown to a Denver hospital for observation, was released and is expected to be OK, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The child wasn\u2019t identified.<\/p>\n<p>The case is under investigation, Nowlin said, and witnesses were being interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Horses in the sheriff\u2019s mounted patrol go through sensitivity training so they become accustomed to a variety of circumstances, people and crowds. Nowlin said the horse previously has been calm when around adults and children.<\/p>\n<p>Mounted patrol procedures will be reviewed and changed, he said, and the horses will avoid the park unless there is a call.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, during the water fight event, a child fell and hit his head, Nowlin said, adding that he was transported to a hospital, treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>According to his mother, Rachel Robson, the boy was taken to Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. \u201cHe was looked over by a pediatric neurologist,\u201d Robson said in a message to The Journal. \u201cWe are all home now, and he will recover to his normal state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suffered two fractures and a concussion, Robson said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, a mountain biker on the Sage Hen trail prior to the bike race crashed and broke an arm.<\/p>\n<p>The race was moved to Sage Hen from the Boggy Draw area, which had been closed because of the Plateau Fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff plans a review, will limit horse presence in park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,568,13,28,1300,1531,52,60,29,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-62011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-events","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-horseback-riding","tag-injury","tag-law-enforcement","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62011"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=62011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}