Big BBQ

[greygoose]

I know things are on a larger scale in America, but 18,000 cows dying in a fire on a farm is pretty incredible .

[PurplePangolin]

greygoose said:

I know things are on a larger scale in America, but 18,000 cows dying in a fire on a farm is pretty incredible .

Was Bill Gates spotted with a Jerry can and some matches?

[ScotHill]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-6525810...

“Authorities believe that machinery in the facility may have ignited methane gas.”

So were they destroyed by their own farts?

[The Hypno-Toad]

Great click bait headline but is everything here as it seems?

The sheriff seems to think it was "methane and what not," but given its location and a history of some farm owning domestic terrorists building truck bombs, do we think that might be more to this than meets the eye?

I mean I know about how these farms store a lot of fertilizer and I can guess methane build up can be an issue but that is one hell of a big blast cloud. Almost looks like the Beirut explosion.

[dukeboy749r]

PurplePangolin said:

greygoose said:

I know things are on a larger scale in America, but 18,000 cows dying in a fire on a farm is pretty incredible .

Was Bill Gates spotted with a Jerry can and some matches?

As a returning PH poster, could you not add some thing useful (even occasionally) to some of your posts?

When are the Easter holidays over?

[RB Will]

The Hypno-Toad said:

Great click bait headline but is everything here as it seems?

I mean I know about how these farms store a lot of fertilizer .

I'm no large scale farmer, used to have a small holding with some sheep and cows, but don't know why a dairy farm would have loads of explosive fertiliser, would have thought if they did need any it would be produced in house by the cows?

I guess too many farty burpy cows in an enclosed shed, bit of a ventilation failure and a spark and up it goes. Probably loads of easily combustible stuff in there like hay / feed etc.

[Digger]

Pretty shocking really - whoever is at fault thoroughly deserves a pat on the head.

[Jasandjules]

Quite awful.

[rodericb]

A place like that would surely have procedures in place to minimise the risk of methane buildup and ignition. Maybe there was human error involved? Some fan failed and nothing put in place to mitigate?

[gotoPzero]

Well there goes another food processing plant / farm etc.

I cant remember before the last 12 months any farms or tinned meat factories exploding like they were freaking PEPCON factories.

I cant understand how its not being investigated more.

You know I get it fires happen, but its weird these places keep exploding.

[greygoose]

You do wonder about H&S standards in America, the number of train derailments resulting in large spillages and fires is scary, unless they have always happened and are just being reported more nowadays.

[matchmaker]

Digger said:

Pretty shocking really - whoever is at fault thoroughly deserves a pat on the head.