The fire declared it on Friday at the end of the day in an operation of Guémane-Penfao. Two people were slightly inconveniated by the fumes.
Le Monde with AFP
Four hundred calves died Friday, December 17 at the end of the day in the fire of an agricultural building in Loire-Atlantic and two people were transported to the hospital but their condition seemed without gravity. The causes of the fire were not known Friday night.
The help has been called shortly before 5 pm due to a fire that had declared itself in an agricultural building of 1,300 m 2 in Guémane-Penfao, indicated the departmental service of fire and relief, in a statement. The building, “which stored a 400 calf herd”, was “totally embraced” on the arrival of firefighters and “no cattle could be evacuated from the building”.
Two people, a 29-year-old woman and her 4-year-old boy, “slightly inconvenienced by smoke”, according to firefighters, were transported to Nantes University. The technical installations of the agricultural operation, comprising two silos of milk powder storage, a cereal storage silo and a gas tank, could be preserved, as well as, in the affected building, 80 liters of acid Nitrochloro, used for cleaning the stabulations, specifies the press release.