{"id":93209,"date":"2019-06-27T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-thrown-from-horse-requires-helicopter-transport-to-mercy\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:58:00","slug":"man-thrown-from-horse-requires-helicopter-transport-to-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-thrown-from-horse-requires-helicopter-transport-to-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Man thrown from horse requires helicopter transport to Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4586464e-a230-4901-a0e3-1b9c4a4d0899&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1035\" alt=\"A Pine River Valley resident who was injured when he was thrown from a horse is expected to recover.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Pine River Valley resident who was injured when he was thrown from a horse is expected to recover.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A longtime Pine River Valley resident is expected to recover after being thrown from a horse last weekend, suffering injuries that required helicopter transport to Mercy Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Pine River Fire Protection District Chief Bruce Evans said Ricky Ludwig was riding a horse on the southeast side of Vallecito Reservoir about 11:30 a.m. Saturday with his family when his horse reared and threw him off.<\/p>\n<p>The horse kicked Ludwig in the head, Evans said, and then rolled on top of him. Ludwig suffered an injury to his head and his abdomen. Out of extreme caution, a Flight for Life helicopter was called to take him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have someone with an abdominal injury \u2026 you never know how bad it is until they get to the hospital,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you never take a chance with that and always err on the side of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter landed on a designated landing zone near the dam. Evans said Ludwig did not require further transport to Denver and, as of Wednesday, was doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Evans said Ludwig and his family are an entrenched part of the community in the Pine River Valley. He said Ludwig is a former volunteer with the Upper Pine River Fire Protection District and used to work for the Forest Lakes Metro District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a very beloved individual in the Pine River Valley,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Pine River Valley resident expected to recover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5830,5735,5741,5813,6233,6177],"tags":[68,29,1370,1500,1394],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-mercy-regional-medical-center","category-news","category-newsletter","category-upper-pine-river-fire-protection-district","category-vallecito","category-vallecito-reservoir","tag-mercy-regional-medical-center","tag-newsletter","tag-upper-pine-river-fire-protection-district","tag-vallecito","tag-vallecito-reservoir"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93209","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=93209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93209"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}