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Animal suffering after barn fire: 14,500 hens lost in Bad Fallingbostel!
On July 18, 2025, the program “Inspector with Whiskers” in Lower Saxony will shed light on animal suffering and stable fires.
Animal suffering after barn fire: 14,500 hens lost in Bad Fallingbostel!
Last Wednesday, July 18, 2025, there was a devastating stable fire in Bad Fallingbostel, which had a devastating impact on the animal population in the Heidekreis district. Loud Time A shocking 14,500 laying hens died in this incident while firefighters struggled for hours to put out the fire.
The fire broke out in the afternoon and raged in a building measuring approximately 50 by 20 meters, which burned down completely. The fire department was called at 5 p.m., but the fire was already well underway when they arrived. The extinguishing work took more than eight hours. Particularly tragic: The animals could not be saved, while the farmer and the veterinarian had to care for the surviving animals. Fortunately, there were no human injuries. The estimated damage amounts to almost two million euros.
A structural problem
The stable fire in Bad Fallingbostel is not an isolated incident. How Animal rights According to reports, tens of thousands of animals die in Germany every year due to such incidents. In 2021, around 152,955 animals had lost their lives due to fires and the trend also continued in 2022 when 89,421 animals died. The causes of these tragic events are diverse, including structural defects and technical defects, which means the problem must be viewed as structural.
Unfortunately, Germany lacks comprehensive and binding fire protection regulations for animal husbandry. Fire alarm systems are not mandatory, and there are no official statistics on these incidents. The expert Stefan Stein and his team see the need to collect data about these fires, as around 5,000 fires occur in agriculture every year, of which around 2,300 to 2,400 are documented. This is a clear call to improve fire protection in animal husbandry.
Other topics in focus
However, there is not only news about the stable fire in the region. Topics presented in the current edition of the program “Inspector with Whiskers”, which will be broadcast on July 18th and 19th, provide further insight into what is happening in Lower Saxony. Under the direction of Thorsten Hapke, topics include the popular cat “Barney”, who regularly visits the Göttingen police offices and lets the officers pet him, as well as swimming accidents in the mudflats. A trip around the world across Lower Saxony in just five days is also on the program, which is what viewers can expect.
The challenges in agriculture, particularly with regard to animal safety, should not be ignored. The fire in Bad Fallingbostel has once again highlighted the major deficiencies in this area and raises questions that urgently need to be answered. Change is needed to prevent such tragic incidents in the future and reduce animal suffering.