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It's getting hot out West -- and those scorching temperatures are rapidly thawing incredible amounts of snowpack in the mountains. It's getting hot out West -- and those scorching temperatures are rapidly thawing the incredible amounts of snowpack that accumulated in the mountain ranges over a very active wet season. Now, water utility experts and environmental experts are working to ensure the freshwater running down the mountainsides won't go to waste. The West is coming off an early season heat wave that jumpstarted a mass liquification of precipitation that fell as snow in the highest elevations in the region. As the West Coast was slammed with round after round of atmospheric rivers, it brought up to 200% more snowpack than normal to places like the Sierra Nevada mountain range. MORE: Complications arise in the West as early heat wave causes snowpack to melt rapidly As the snow melts, many lakes and reservoirs in the region -- which were previously drying up due to a...

A group of Wisconsin residents banded together to rescue a lost horse who fell through an icy lake. When a runaway horse was found inside the icy waters of a Wisconsin lake this weekend, a group of good Samaritans banded together to make sure the Mustang would get a chance to ride on Christmas. Residents and other neighbors told ABC News they were relieved that the horse, who they dubbed Jack after the "Titanic" character, was able to get up and stand after it spent three hours in the water in Wood Lake, Wisconsin on Sunday. Mike Strub, the president of the Big Wood Lake Association, and resident of the lake who was on the scene during the rescue , told ABC News that despite the subzero temperatures and limited resources, his neighbors never gave up until they could get Jack to safety. A horse that was rescued from icy waters is recuperating and slated to be reunited with its owners. DJ Ryan "This doesn't surprise me. That is the kind of neighborhood and community t...