A truck transporting at least 2,200 baby pigs has overturned on the road in Ohio with hundreds managing to escape. Firefighters, police, ambulance and volunteers all tried to catch the little porkers.
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A semi-tractor trailer carrying the animals crashed on Route 35
outside the town of Xenia, Ohio, on Monday evening. The truck,
which was en route from South Carolina to Indiana, was on the
westbound ramp when the driver lost control and veered into a
guardrail, police said.
Assisting Xenia Twp with Accident on US 35 – 2200 piglets on
board ….crews are chasing piglets all over the scene.
pic.twitter.com/2JwIQaiUzv
— Xenia Fire Division (@XFDPIO) June 9,
2015
About 300 to 400 piglets were killed, dispatchers told local
media. Meanwhile, another 1,500 of the plucky porkers were
captured and then taken to the Greene County Fairgrounds.
Emergency crews in Greene County are trying to get the pigs to
water! pic.twitter.com/00XzakjnIJ
— Frankie Jupiter WXIX (@FrankieJupiter) June
9, 2015
“They’re in the woods, so I don’t think we’ll ever get all of
them – I really, really don’t,” Xenia Township Fire Chief
Dean Fox told WCPO Cincinnati news channel. “We’ll try as
hard as we can to retrieve all of them, but we probably won’t
retrieve them all.”
There were two people in the truck, One of them, the passenger,
suffered a minor injury and was taken to the hospital.
Multiple units search for baby pigs in wooded area of Green
County after truck overturns @FOX19 pic.twitter.com/7AA30zLvMS
— Frankie Jupiter WXIX (@FrankieJupiter) June
9, 2015
Fire emergency crews, police, ambulance and volunteers are
helping to retrieve the escaped baby pigs.
“The help from local farmers meant a lot,” Fox said.
“If we didn’t have the farmers here with their livestock
trailers, there’d be pigs every place still.”
Xenia pig truck crash: Semitrailer full of pigs overturns via
http://t.co/2QNqTdNa8Y#Dukepic.twitter.com/98BoXz0vVL
— News Mayotte (@NewsMayotte) June
9, 2015
Xenia Fire Division tweeted that “crews are chasing piglets
all over the scene.”
Police officers say they worry that the remaining runaway pigs
may end up as a meal for local coyotes.
UPDATE: Local farmers brought in trailers, and the pigs are
being loaded up. http://t.co/rjlSu9s8Py pic.twitter.com/aBHPk4aTvs
— WCPO (@WCPO) June 9,
2015