SHELDON, Vt. (WCAX) – A community came together Saturday when a barn fire forced hundreds of cows out into the cold.
Fire officials were called to East Sheldon Rd – for a large 400 foot barn that was fully engaged when they arrived.
Workers and neighbors were able to free almost all of the 500 heifers that were in the barn.
The fire chief told us that possibly 5 or 6 cows were lost.
“Number of animals in the road about a quarter of mile from here blocking traffic,” Sheldon Fire Chief Richard Piaseczny said. “So blocking our traffic to get here because all the cows – roughly 500 cows that left – trying to corral them. Trying to get them into some other trucks, and get into other farms to protect them. Obviously cold weather and them don’t along very well. The structure is a total loss. Obviously to some equipment and so forth in there too I don’t have the details on that. But they say, that I’m gonna say 450 of them are more.”
Fire officials say the cold temps were not a problem with the water supply because it was all trucked in.