Four hundred calves died Friday, December 17 at the end of the day in a fire in an agricultural building in Loire-Atlantique and two people were "
slightly inconvenienced by the fumes
", AFP learned from the firefighters.
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Help was called shortly before 5:00 p.m. because of a fire that broke out in a 1300 m2 agricultural building in Guéméné-Penfao, the departmental fire and rescue service said in a statement.
The building, "
which stored a herd of 400 calves
", was "
totally ablaze
" when the firefighters arrived and "
no cattle could be evacuated from the building
".
The causes of the fire were not known Friday evening.
The technical installations of the farm could be preserved, as well as, in the damaged building, 80 liters of nitro-chlorinated acid, used for cleaning the stalls, said the press release.
