This Tuesday morning, May 6, shortly before 8 am, rue du Tévoir on the heights of the village of Fied. Alexandre Greusard has just finished the milking of his Montbéliardes and monitors their exit from the quays when he sees flames inside the building, “at the back of the self -career, which was parked almost in contact with a heated drinker” recalls, hot, the farmer.
The drinker did not heat in this season, the self-career (with its hay cargo) was stopped: what could have caused the fire?
We don’t know. The fact remains that the young man calls the firefighters and saves his cows by evacuating them towards their meadow.
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Calves examined by a veterinarian
When the firefighters arrive from the Champagnole, Poligny, Arbois and Lons barracks with five devices, they help the young breeder to extract 14 calves from their smoky boxes to put them in the meadow too.
Next to the hay and straw bales on fire, they risk asphyxiation. Everyone is examined by a veterinarian who validates their release in the fresh kiss of this gray morning.
At the same time, out of the 23 firefighters in intervention on the disaster, some connect their pipe to the town’s tank almost 200 m away to supply the tanks of the trucks and then the spears. They then attack the fire from the ground and from a nacelle.
We know how difficult and long is the complete extinction of a fire that has taken in round balls. Without being able to save the entire building whose fiberociment roof broke out, the fire soldiers try to preserve the milking room.
She burned on the outskirts without knowing this Tuesday morning, if the functionality of the place is altered or not.
A beautiful solidarity between neighbors
Tuesday morning, when the firefighters were acting under the orders of Lieutenant Binot de Champagnole, it was therefore not certain that Alexandre and his father Daniel – which exploit in Gaec- can reuse this equipment for their 55 dairy cows.
As for the rest of the main farm building – which dates from the year 2000- There is little doubt: it will be necessary to rebuild it. The part of the hay stock under tunnel, located about thirty meters away from the building, is preserved.
In their misfortune, the Greusard see flowing all their colleagues farmers in the village to offer them rescue solutions and face the emergency (such as the milking) and deliver advice to act in the event of such a blow. So many tense hands that lighten the sentence of the victims a little.
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