A farm in northern England was set on fire by one of the pigs! The pig swallowed a pedometer, and when it finally excreted the inedible device, the copper in the object’s battery sparked a flame in the pig dung and dried hay. The fire spread out to about 75 square meters of the farmyard before it was put out. Fire crews and civilians rushed to the farm with water to “save the bacon”, as LiveScience detailed:
In recent years, lithium-ion batteries in personal devices such as cellphones and vape pens have spontaneously combusted, sometimes causing severe burns and even broken bones, Live Science previously reported.
However, no animals involved in the pigpen fire — including the firehog who inadvertently started the blaze — were harmed by the flames or smoke, according to the firefighters' tweets.
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