The deadliest blaze for cows since at least 2013 could cost the dairy farm tens of millions, by one estimate.
A fire erupted on a family farm in west Texas this week, killing about 18,000 cows that were worth millions of dollars and injuring one worker.
Fire crew worked late into the night to contain the blaze at South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt, Texas. The incident claimed the lives of roughly 18,000 cows, local officials said. The incident marks the nation's deadliest fire for cows since at least 2013, the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., told CBS MoneyWatch. The agriculture industry and lawmakers must pass stricter laws protecting animals from fire, said Allie Granger, policy associate for AWI's farm animal program.
The fire started in a different part of the farm property, then spread to a holding pen where the cows wait to be milked,Castro County judge Mandy Gfeller, the top executive in the county, estimated South Fork's losses in the tens of millions of dollars, USA Today The surviving cows were moved to a different facility on the South Fork farm, but local sheriffs said some of those cattle suffered, too.
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