'Catastrophic' Ohio farm fire kills 6,000 hogs and pigs, officials say
A wind-swept blaze at an Ohio hog farm complex caused "catastrophic" damage and left thousands of pigs dead, fire officials said, marking another devastating barn inferno contributing to the deaths of millions of animals in recent years.
The massive fire occurred on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at Fine Oak Farms in Union Township, Madison County, located west of Ohio's capital of Columbus, according to the Central Townships Joint Fire District. Fire crews received a report of a barn fire shortly before 12 p.m. local time.
The incident was later upgraded to a commercial structure fire after Chief Brian Bennington observed a "large column of smoke visible from a distance" and requested additional resources. Multiple local fire departments, along with several other emergency agencies, were called to the scene.
"What our crews encountered upon arrival was a very difficult and heartbreaking incident," Bennington said in a statement on Feb. 26.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/catastrophic-ohio-farm-fire-kills-033927911.html
Sounds like one of those factory farms.
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