Tag: barn fire

A wind-driven fire at Fine Oak Farms in Madison County, Ohio killed 6,000 hogs on Feb. 25, but no human lives were lost. “It takes a psychological toll on you,” said Fire Chief Brian Bennington. “We feel bad because we lost. And it's not because we did a bad job. It's because we lost. We never want to lose buildings. We never want to lose a life, whether it's an animal or human or anything else.”

A dairy farm fire sparked an unexpected love story for Daniel and Deanna Duma, leading to marriage, a new life together and their first child on the way.

No lives were lost after a fast-moving fire destroyed a barn at a western Pennsylvania dairy farm.

Two men and a sledgehammer. That’s all it took to take down the Kotkowskis’ 80-foot concrete silo.

Nine days after a fire engulfed Blair and Karen Kotkowski's main barn, one of their silos caught fire and is expected to burn for months.

The Comp family relocated more than 1,000 dairy cows in less than 24 hours after a after a fire destroyed the farm’s milking parlor on Sept. 22.

Beaver County's beloved Brunton Dairy farm is rebuilding after a fire destroyed their milking barn and bottling facility last fall.

At least 44 horses died in the fire that injured Eric Priest and destroyed Brant Performance Horses, in Logan County, Ohio on June 8.

A fire destroyed a barn at Kibler Dairy Farm in Warren, Ohio in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 22 but it could have been much worse. 

The Whiteleather family lost three barns and dozens of calves to a July 15 fire, but they are carrying on farming, with the help of hundreds of friends and neighbors.