Posted on 06/10/2018 7:24:32 PM PDT by Hugin
A pig farm in Saskatchewan caught on fire and caused millions of dollars in damage, including the deaths of 12,000 pigs. The volunteer fire department responded to an emergency call to fight the blaze, but when they got there, an employee of the farm didn't let them in.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Was Rosie O’Donnell among the casualties?
Canada
I’d like to hear why the firefighters let the employee tell them what to do. And why there wasn’t a sprinkler system in a country chock full of regulations.
You obviously missed the joke.
Trudeau voters? Not a BBQ joke...
I have no problem with what the employee did. Article said the pigs may have already been dead. My guess is smoke inhalation for them before the fire.
Sometimes, firefighters overdo the hero thing and go into situations that should have been avaided.
9/11 is a good example. Two buildings on fire from two huge fuel-ladened planes? There was nothing they could have done to save additional lives or property. Don’t doubt their courage for a second, but supervisors should have not allowed them to enter the building.
Another example was a restaurant fire in a one story restaurant at lunch time. 5 firefighters needlessly died because they entered the building to “rescue” nonexistent people. Really? It was the middle of the day and anyone in the building had far more than enough time to get out.
What a bacon bonanza!!
“Cuz I don’t dig on swine.”
“But bacon tastes GOOD; pork chops taste GOOD.”
“Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie; but I’m still not gonna eat the filthy mofo.”
Well, we’d have to be talkin’ about one charming ...... pig. I mean, he’d have to be ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I’m saying?
The place was probably a hellhole and they were embarressed to let them in. SOB should be incinerated himself. SOmething needs to be done about housing animals in such horrific conditions.
I like pork myself, butbthuscwas horrible. Theventire meat industry needs to be overhauled in their housing practises.
I am reminded of a school fire in Saudi Arabia a few yeas back. Many girls were burned alive because the muslim religion police wouldn’t let them leave the building and be seen in public without head coverings.
Not kidding. *sigh*
Hopefully they passed out from smoke inhalation before they got burned and could feel any pain. I’m hoping so anyway.
The employee needs to feel the same pain. Justice.
Bunch of level headed folks here on FR. /s
An agricultural building is NOT like a residential building. They’re still tearing down chicken houses that have nasty 2” yellow foam insulation. (urethane & formaldehyde) That stuff burns hot and gives off the nastiest black smoke and deadly fumes you can imagine. Even the new foam insulation can only be used in certain places on residential construction.
Bunch of pigs in a building? Methane? The employee likely saved some firefighter’s lives and the pigs WERE likely dead due to fumes from building materials and construction methods that are allowed in AG buildings.
There’s a reason AG, commercial and residential building/code standards are different. (and in rural country, there are no building codes)
It’s Trudeau’s Canada. Need I say anything else.
That’s funny.
It sounds terrible but the grease fire from 12,000 pigs is but a match stick compared to the one Fat Ted Kennedy is throwing off right now.
That was one expensive employee.
Estimating risk is part of a firefighter's job.
All that Canadian Bacon !!!
OMG all the porcin-manity.
Thomas Lamb’s “A Dissertation on Roast Pig”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.