by Merritt Clifton MONTREAL––A June 9, 2015 barn fire that killed more than 200 dairy cows near St. Denis sur-Richelieu, Quebec lent emphasis to the ongoing efforts of Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Farm Animals to persuade the National Farm Animal Care Council to adopt fire safety standards, and for me rekindled memories of […]
Cage-free egg farm fire kills 65,000 hens, revives attention to lack of sprinklers in barns
FORT WAYNE, Indiana––A predawn fire on July 28, 2014 killed 65,000 hens at an Egg Innovations barn in Kosciusko County, Indiana, reviving attention to a two-year-old National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing. “Flames were showing. Probably shooting in the air about 20 feet,” Atwood fire chief Mike […]