Watching the agonizing videos from the Australian floods this week has been almost unbearable.

The horrific loss of life, the devastation of the land, the destruction of homes - and the endless, pounding rain.

The stories and images of horses struggling for their lives, only to perish beneath the water, will haunt me for a long time to come. Yet emerging from this horror, is a glimmer of light; Stories of ordinary people who acted heroically and selflessly to save the lives of horses caught in the floods.

Watch the everyday heroes in the videos below.