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[compy]

There was a barn fire this afternoon at a stable very close to where I board my horse. Eleven horses died.

I know this barn.

There is a picture in the wire story showing two of the horse owners watching. I don't know these people, but the look on their faces makes my heart break.

Fire is every horse owner's worst nightmare. It is much more likely that a horse will die of colic or be put down due to injury or old age than suffer a fiery fate. So the nightmare is probably not rational.

But barns are tinderboxes stuffed full of fuel. When a fire does happen, it is an inferno that few living things escape. Today's high winds made the flames even more furious.


I read an LJ community where people can rant about their customers. A popular phrase after describing a particularly horrible customer is DIAF. Die in a fire. While I understand that the phrase encapsulates the frustrations of the service industry, I don't think i will be reading the community for a few days.

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[snapesgirl-62.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I've had the special fear of finding hot hay bales then tossing them out of the barn's loft as quickly as possible. Barn fires are not an irrational fear.

[compost75.livejournal.com]

I am so thankful that there is no hay loft in my barn. The farmer is a hay farmer and stores it in a separate building.

Yeah, i've encountered hot bales before. *shudder*