In the late hours of Sunday evening, a huge fire consumed a dairy farm in Mirabel and around 200 cows perished in the blaze.
The fire, which started around 11 p.m., quickly set the structure of the D’ancoeur dairy farm ablaze, located along Chemin Lalande.
Shaken, Eric Dumontier, the owner of the farm, confided that the fire progressed very quickly. I had been in the barn for 10 minutes, then boom, he says.
Neither he nor the neighbors who rushed to his aid were able to overcome the flames to save the animals.
A fire already ravaged the building in 2013, killing 150 cows. Another fire was also reported in 1998, where a total loss was reported.
An electrical fault could have caused the flames.
According to information from the Service de la sécurité incendie Mirabel, 37 firefighters from Mirabel, Lachute, and Saint-André d’Argenteuil were dispatched at around 11 p.m. on Sunday to battle the blaze.
“When we arrived on the scene, the fire had spread to almost the entire building,” Joël Laviolette, director of the Mirabel fire department, told MTL blog.
“The dairy cows and barn are probably a total loss.”
According to a report from Radio-Canada, this represents a loss of about $4 million.
There were no human casualties.
