200 Cows Were Killed In A Huge Dairy Farm Fire Outside Montreal

There were no human casualties.

200 Cows Were Killed In A Mirabel Dairy Farm Fire

200 Cows Were Lost In A Dairy Farm Fire In Mirabel

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Staff Writer

In the late hours of Sunday evening, a huge fire consumed a dairy farm in Mirabel and around 200 cows perished in the blaze.

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.

This article's cover image is used for illustrative purposes only.

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    Teddy Elliot was a Staff Writer for MTL Blog. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec and has a B.A. in Literature. Teddy has been a journalist for three years and was once an English teacher. His creative work has appeared in The Blasted Tree and Parenthetical Magazine. When he's not chasing scoops, Teddy can be found cheering on Aston Villa and listening to 80s power ballads. He was shortlisted for a Digital Publishing Award in 2021.

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