Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Tea kettle blamed for barn fire

Photo by Marie Zettler


MARIE ZETTLER
Ottawa
Local News - Saturday, August 04, 2007 @ 07:00



A fire caused by a tea kettle that had accidentally been left plugged in started a barn fire at a farm on the Bromley Line in the Westmeath area on Friday evening.

The fire, in a pig barn at the farm of Merlyn and Alice Martin and their family, was brought under control by the quick response of Mr. and Mrs. Martin and their three daughters.

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The kettle was kept in the barn to heat water to mix milk replacer to supplement the diet of baby pigs. There were a half dozen sows with litters in the barn, as well as some weaned pigs.

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This is the kind of fire my smoke detecting power strip could prevent.

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