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23-hundred hogs were destroyed last night, after a hog operation went up in flames, near Albert City, Iowa.
It was around 8-pm Thursday night when Albert City Ambulance personnel were driving back to
Albert City, and discovered a fire just south of there.
When they arrived, two hog buildings were engulfed in flames.
Nearly 20 hours later, you can still see the smoke coming from a hog operation here at 1946 540th street, near Albert City, Iowa.
This is what's left of two buildings, and nearly 23-hundred hogs.
Chuck Eddy, Buena Vista County Sheriff, said, "It's kind of a maze of hog confinements up there, they were kind of all connected. The two that were really destroyed, there were a couple that were completely destroyed, and a couple of the other ones had some fire and smoke damage."
As you can see by the pigs that are still alive, at least two other hog buildings made it through the blaze. But, investigators say it could take up to a week or more before they'll know exactly what caused the blaze that demolished two others.
Eddy said, "We have to get some excavators in there, so we can move some of the building parts, and get the dead hogs out of there, before they can go in and look and try to determine how it started."
It took 7 fire departments, and several hours to get the fire under control. The State Fire Marshall's Office, along with Buena Vista County Sheriff's Office, and the Albert City Fire Department, are conducting a full investigation.
The State Fire Marshall's Office is expected to be back on scene Monday morning.
Damage is estimated at about a half million dollars.
The hog buildings are owned by the First State Bank of Ida Grove, Iowa. The livestock in the buildings were owned by Southern Pork.
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