Fire in barn containing 1400 piglets
A LARGE number of pigs have died in a barn fire near Sutton-on-the-Forest.
Fire services were called last night to the blaze in a 35m by 20m barn containing around 1400 young pigs.
Four fire engines - from Easingwold, Huntington, York and Acomb - and two water bowsers went to the scene at 10.38pm last night.
Early this morning, two engines and a water bowser were still at the site.
A fire spokesperson said that although a large number of pigs - around 1000 - were rescued, the remaining animals died in the fire.
No people were harmed, they added.
Fire services conducted a further check this morning but no cause for the fire has yet been established.
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