Pig Starts a Farm Fire

It was the headlines that caught my attention.

From The Guardian:

Burning calories: Pig sets farm on fire by excreting a pedometer

From the BBC:

Bacon saved after pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm fire

That led me to this notable tweet from the Fire service:

Should be an oink not a tweet. Tadcaster and Knaresbororough firecrews attended a fire to 4 pigpens near Bramham. No pigs harmed. Cause of fire attributed to a battery powered pedometer carried by one of the pigs (to prove it was free-range), which was eaten by the other pigs. After nature had taken its course, it's believed that the copper from the batteries reacted with the pigpens contents and in conjunction with dry bedding, ignited burning approx. 75sqm of hay. A hosereel was used to extinguish the fire and save the bacon.