Tag Archives: fire
250 Pigs Killed in Sweden Barn Fire
Bacon Today reader Joakim Troëng alerted us of a breaking news story out of Scandanavia today. An estimated 500 pigs were in an Edenberga, Sweden barn when a possible lightning strike ignited the structure. Approximately 250 pigs died in the …
Bacon on Fire
We’ve had scares in the past about bacon buildings on fire. To this point however, we’ve been lucky that the reports were either hoaxes or misinformation. Today we are not so fortunate. Residents near the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant in …
Bacon Warehouse on Fire
Okay, I’ll admit it…I was the friend who’s source sparked the “almost” article yesterday about a bacon emergency. I was told by a reliable source that there was “a bacon warehouse on fire in Pomona, CA.” When I heard those …
Bacon Equipment Company – Fire Suppression Equipment
A friend of a friend (strong source, I know) told me that there was a fire at a bacon factory in Pomona. I thought, “this would be the perfect subject for tonight’s article”. Try as I might, however, I couldn’t …
Bacon Blowtorch Cuts Metal With Fire
Popular Science writer Theodore Gray recently embarked on an experiment of supreme bacon significance. He created a “bacon lance” which is a form of “thermal lance” — a device typically made of iron to cut through scrap metal. This is …
How to Get the Attention of 6 Sexy Firemen Using Bacon
The following is an annecdote from a good friend of ours. Her name has been changed for the purposes of this story. Not that she’d mind us using her name, it just makes us sound that much more important to …
Bacon Lost in Tragic Accident
Dave Peterson, proprietor of the Corralitos Market & Sausage Company, called in the fire department to save his bacon on September 16th of this year. One of the four smokehouses behind his Corralitos, CA store caught fire and damaged a …