Rain, cooler temperatures, and tenacious firefighters are finally extinguishing many of the fires that have burned in British Columbia, Canada, for the last six weeks. Owners of one Thoroughbred farm are rebuilding after flames took two barns, while two others are rejoicing after a close call.

Lightning ignited the first major fire near Kamloops on July 30. By Aug. 1, the flames threatened Ron and Rae Fawcett’s Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds near Heffley Creek, and eventually raged on three sides of their 150-acre farm