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Carruthers · 03-08-2020, 07:03 AM

Bacon saved as pig triggers blaze after eating pedometer

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A pig has sparked a fire after excreting a pedometer it had eaten.

Firefighters were deployed to the blaze covering some 75 square metres at four pens in Bramham near Leeds on Saturday afternoon.

It is thought to have been caused when the pedometer, used to prove the pigs were free range, was eaten by one of the animals.

Once "nature had taken its course", the copper from the device's batteries reacted with the contents of the pigpens causing the dry hay bedding to burst into flames, according to North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.

The brigade quipped: "A hosereel was used to extinguish the fire and save the bacon."

The unusual incident led to a number of humorous hog-related responses on Twitter, with one user saying: "The cause must have come as a sowprise. Your job certainly isn't boaring."

Another wrote: "@NorthYorksFire knows how to bring the bacon home, well done lads!"

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tw · 03-08-2020, 09:39 AM

A fire marshal, who had to find the source of that fire, clearly had a dirty job.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-08-2020, 10:02 AM

It must have been for him to come up with that fairy tale of copper reacting with pigshit.

BigV · 03-08-2020, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It must have been for him to come up with that fairy tale of copper reacting with pigshit.

Right!

Especially when you can clearly see the fire brigade responding and no coppers in sight!

Carruthers · 03-08-2020, 01:41 PM

Not sure that this adds much in the way of explanation but, FWIW, this is from the BBC report...

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A peckish pig who swallowed a pedometer ended up sparking a fire in its pen.

Fire crews were called to a farm near Bramham, Leeds, at about 14:00 GMT on Saturday after copper from the pedometer's batteries apparently reacted with the pig's excrement and dry bedding.

The pedometers were being used on pigs to prove they were free-range. No pigs or people were hurt in the fire.

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"Cause of fire attributed to a battery-powered pedometer carried by one of the pigs (to prove it was free-range), which was eaten by the other."

The fire service said crews were sent at about 14:00 GMT after "nature had taken its course".

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tw · 03-09-2020, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

Not sure that this adds much in the way of explanation but,

How did it spread to multiple sheds when each was separated by metal?

xoxoxoBruce · 03-10-2020, 01:06 AM

Through the straw all around them.

More likely the pedometer had a lithium battery the pig bit through sparked the blaze, but not copper.

03-08-2020, 10:02 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It must have been for him to come up with that fairy tale of copper reacting with pigshit. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-10-2020, 01:06 AM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Through the straw all around them. More likely the pedometer had a lithium battery the pig bit through sparked the blaze, but not copper. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-08-2020, 09:39 AM	#2
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	A fire marshal, who had to find the source of that fire, clearly had a dirty job.

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