Tea kettle blamed for barn fire

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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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Heat lamp blamed for barn fire

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A barn fire killed several animals Thursday afternoon.
No one was home when the fire started.
A neighbor who lives a good distance away spotted the smoke and called 911.
The fire started at a barn in Ogemaw county's Ogemaw township Thursday.

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Heat lamp for piglets suspected in barn fire

Family mourns loss of animals
Fire destroys barn, damages historic house

By Kathleen Baglio Humphreys
Published: Thursday, Apr. 5, 2007

LYNDEBOROUGH — The fire that destroyed their antique barn and severely damaged their 1857 house was bad enough, but it is the death of many of their animals that has the Schmechel family mourning.

The blaze on Friday, March 30, killed 18 rare Old Gloucester piglets, two adult sows, five pet sheep, 24 chickens and a prize goat, as well as a friend’s horse that was boarded at the property, known as Bittersweet Farm. The baby pigs, which were to be shipped out the next day, represented 10 percent of the entire population of rare Old Gloucester pigs in the United States.

Some cows and a pig that were in outside pens survived.

“The material things can be replaced,” said Kathryn Schmechel. “We lost part of our family when we lost the animals. I know it is not a child, but part of who and what we are is those animals, and that is what brings us to tears every couple of hours. That is hard to get through.”

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The state fire marshal’s office has not released the cause of the fire but a heat lamp was being used in the barn to warm the piglets.

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Heat Lamp: Barn fire kills chickens, turkeys

January 31, 2007
BY NICHOLAS P. ALAJAKIS nalajakis@scn1.com

LAKE VILLA --- For the second time in two weeks, an area chicken coop has caught fire, this time killing all the poultry inside.

About 40 chickens and four turkeys died when a Lake Villa barn caught fire this afternoon. A heating lamp used to warm the animals apparently ignited the blaze, said Lake Villa Fire Chief Frank Slazes.

Lake Villa firemen work on putting out a barn fire at 1921 Ceder Lake Road. The barn was being used as a chicken and turkey coop. Forty chickens and four turkeys died.

The blaze at the barn located at 1921 Cedar Lake Road began around 3:30 p.m., said homeowner Peggy Fuller, who said she noticed smoke when she went to feed and water her animals. Fuller said she rushed to the barn and opened the door, only to see flames and more smoke coming from the east side of the large barn.

"When I opened the door it was awfully quiet in there," Fuller said. "There was no good word from (the chickens.)"

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Heat lamp for puppies burns down barn

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This morning, Farmersville, New Holland, West Earl, Martindale and Blue Ball firefighters responded to the barn fire at Kenneth Sensenig’s farm, 384 E. Farmersville Road, Ephrata.

Farmersville firefighter Menno King spotted the fire in a two-story horse barn on his way to work. He alerted Sensenig to the blaze and then rushed to the Farmersville fire station.

A riding horse was in the barn along with a female boxer that had just given birth to eight puppies. A heat lamp had been placed near the puppies, and apparently that is where the fire started, said Farmersville Fire Chief Jonas Reiff.

The fire spread through both floors of the approximately 24-by-28-foot barn, and the flames reached the roof. The fire loss is probably about $20,000, officials said.

The boxer and all the puppies perished. The horse probably will have to be destroyed because of the amount of smoke it inhaled, Reiff said.

About 100 firefighters fought the fire, which was under control within a half hour.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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Purdue University barn burns, heat lamp for caged birds

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Purdue University barn burns
Associated Press

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A heat lamp for caged birds may have caused a barn owned by Purdue University to burn to the ground, firefighters said.

Firefighters with five departments tried unsuccessfully to save the barn Wednesday at the Cunningham Forestry Farm.

The barn was used to store equipment used to maintain the 80-acre property that is mostly forested, said Chris Sigurdson, head of Purdue's Department of Agricultural Communication.

Two tractors and other equipment were lost in the fire, as well as some caged quail kept as pets by a couple who rent a house on the property.

A heat lamp used to warm the quail may have caused the fire, said Randolph Township Volunteer Fire Chief Keith Barker.

Replacement costs will be about $50,000 for the barn and about $20,000 for the tractors, Sigurdson said.

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