I was told the most interesting story then researched ...and felt inspired and compelled to paint this heroic horse.... “wild fire” 48”x36” . I started sketching in the impression of galloping horse ... then painting vibrancy, strength and in motion ....a fire horse who with stood years of battling flames with the people who loved him. ... John Q. Bradfield’s died at age twenty-eight in November 1908 A horse who served the years 1890-1903 at the first Firehouse in Baton Rouge on Fourth and Laurel street. He and the other horses were trained to line up for harnessing to hose carriages when a fire alarm was sounded. The children and towns people loved “old Brad” and would visit him as they passed him standing near the carriage house and give him treats. When he was put out to pasture several Baton Rouge citizens let him go from property to property to graze...but he would still go racing to the sound of a fire call alarm. He was buried in front of the carriage house on 4th.