The emergency services were notified of the fire at 11.36pm and crews from three fire stations have rushed to the scene.
– When we arrived shortly after, it had caught fire and now the roof has collapsed, so the pigs must probably be considered lost, says fire chief Nils-Erik Haagenrud in Rogaland fire and rescue to NTB just before 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
He explains that they could not send in smoke divers because of the fire in the roof.
– Emergency slaughter has been ordered for the pigs that survived the fire, he says.
Just before half past two on Wednesday, the police reported that all the pigs in the pig house had been lost.