The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with Fox News Digital the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the fiery blast engulfed the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt.
The explosion rocked nearby houses and a pall of smoke could be seen 30 miles away.
Very few cows in the holding area survived, officials told local outlet KFDA.
The Animal Welfare Institute estimated the incident is the deadliest barn fire in Texas and deadliest involving cattle since the organization started tracking the fires in 2013, KFDA reported.
A giant plume of intense, dark smoke could be seen from the farm, according to images and video posted on social media in the aftermath of the event.
“Your count probably is close to that. There’s some that survived, there’s some that are probably injured to the point where they’ll have to be destroyed,” Castro County Sherif Sal Rivera told KFDA when asked to confirm the loss of some 18,000 head of cattle.
Farmer’s Weekly reports the blaze spread so rapidly farmworkers were trapped inside the milking parlour by smoke and flames or were beaten back by the heat, preventing them from...
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This is what's called AWS--Asymmetrical Warfare being waged by the DSA/Antifa terrorists. They've only just begun.
ReplyDeleteThe cause will never be known. Any more than will the cause of all the other food industry fires and explosions. And no one will ever be arrested since the FBI does not arrest its own operatives.
ReplyDeleteThe dairy was about one year old. Perhaps a methane explosion related to a manure retention system. The barn was insulated with spray foam. This ignited and the intense heat and toxic vapors killed the confined cows.
ReplyDeleteAn accident with worse possible chain of events.
I wonder what the proximity of this disaster is to where the foreign terrorists are being pushed into the US by the Biden/Soros regime?
ReplyDelete18,000 head? Seems a little high. Do they know how much space that many cows take up? These huge dairy farms run that many but its not like they're all in the same space at the same time.
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