An surge at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that seriously hurt someone and killed an approximated 18,000 head of livestock was the most dangerous barn fire taped considering that the Animal Welfare Institute started tracking the fires
April 13, 2023, 2:39 PM ET
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DIMMITT, Texas — An surge at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that seriously hurt someone and killed an approximated 18,000 head of livestock is the most dangerous barn fire taped considering that the Animal Welfare Institute started tracking the fires.
Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera has said the Monday fire and surge at Southfork Dairy Farm near Dimmitt was most likely brought on by overheated equipment and would be examined by state fire marshals.
“This would be the most deadly fire involving cattle in the past decade, since we started tracking that in 2013,” institute representative Marjorie Fishman said Thursday.
The institute likewise tracks barn fires that eliminate other animals, consisting of poultry, pigs, goats and sheep.
“The deadliest barn fire overall since we began tracking in 2013 … was a fire … at Hi-Grade Egg Producers North, Manchester, Indiana, which killed 1 million chickens,” according to Fishman.
A 2022 report by the institute kept in mind “several instances in which 100,000 to 400,000 chickens were killed in a single fire.”
A call to South Fork Dairy sounded unanswered on Thursday.
A representative for the state insurance coverage department, which manages the fire marshals’ workplace, said just that the fire is under examination and referred concerns to Rivera, who did not right away return call for remark Thursday.
Insurance department representative Gardner Selby decreased discuss the hurt individual’s condition.
Dimmitt has to do with 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Amarillo and 50 miles east of the New Mexico border.
