A cow in a field in Texas in the United States (illustration image).
Nearly 18,000 cows died in the explosion of a dairy farm in Texas, in the South of the United States, authorities announced on Thursday April 13. One person was also injured. A An explosion and a fire ravaged the Southfork dairy farm, located near the town of Dimmit, in the Texas region of the Panhandle, on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
An overheated manure evacuation system could have caused the methane contained in this gigantic operation to explode. An investigation has been opened.
“This is the deadliest livestock farm fire in Texas history and the investigation and clearing is likely to take time,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said. , in a press release.
Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera told CBS Amarillo that a barn manure system may have been “overheated.” He specified that the methane could “ignite and then spread with the explosion and the fire”. An investigation has been opened to determine the causes of the disaster.
