The proprietor of a Texas pet-boarding firm the place 75 canine died in a fireplace mentioned Monday that he’s heartbroken and grieving the animals’ deaths.
The canine died of smoke inhalation after the hearth at round 11 p.m. Saturday on the Ponderosa Pet Resort in Georgetown, a metropolis of round 67,000 north of Austin, hearth officers mentioned.
“I’m emotionally overwhelmed by the unintended hearth on Saturday evening at our enterprise,” Phillip Paris mentioned in a press release Monday, in keeping with NBC affiliate KXAN of Austin. “Fifty-nine households are affected, and their greatest pals received’t be coming residence. As a canine proprietor, I really feel their heartbreak intensely.”
The preliminary investigation has given officers no indication that the reason for the hearth is prison, however the inquiry continues, the Georgetown Hearth Division mentioned.
Hearth Chief John Sullivan known as for endurance.
“We wish solutions, and we wish solutions now, however we have to undergo a technique of figuring out clearly what precipitated this hearth so we are able to higher study from this and assist forestall a future tragedy from occurring,” he mentioned Monday.
When hearth crews acquired to the positioning, the ability was utterly engulfed in smoke and the entire canine on the enterprise had died, the hearth division has mentioned.
The fireplace division mentioned Monday that the method of reuniting house owners with their canine will start.
Sprinklers will not be required at a enterprise of that dimension in Georgetown, the hearth division mentioned. Sullivan mentioned there might be modifications to the hearth code within the wake of the hearth.
The lethal hearth occurred simply days after a fireplace at a Florida pet adoption facility killed 23 cats. Firefighters had been in a position to save all of the canine and a few cats after the hearth Wednesday on the Pet Alliance of Better Orlando, officers mentioned.
