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Firefighters save 72 pigs after slurry tank floor collapses.
- Source :
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Farmers Weekly . 8/3/2018, p19-19. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The article discusses farmer Nigel Grant has thanked firefighters after they saved several pigs that had fallen into a slurry tank on a farm in Northern Ireland. It mentions that firefighters from the animal rescue teams wore breathing apparatus and used rescue lines to pull the pigs from the slurry pit; and as monitors were used throughout the incident to monitor gas levels from the slurry.
- Subjects :
- *ANIMAL rescue
*FIRE fighters
*BREATHING apparatus
*SLURRY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00148474
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Farmers Weekly
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 131069652