A 70-year-old cattle auction business in Lexington, Ky. was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. There were no human fatalities in the fire at Blue Grass Marketing Group, but there were 20 cattle in the facility that were presumed dead.
The fire started on Saturday, January 30, reports the New York Daily News. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by employees who were working at the business. More than 120 firefighters battled the fire for several hours in a wooden structure that Interim Fire Chief Harold Hoskins compared to “a standing lumber yard.”