The Castro
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| Area | 136 |
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| ZIP codes | 94110, 94114 |
| Named for | José Castro |
| Restaurants | Kitchen Story |
| Beit Rima | |
| Red Jade | |
| Starbelly | |
| Hotels | Beck's Motor Lodge |
| Twin Peaks Hotel | |
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| ID | 2341654 |
About The Castro
The Castro District, in Eureka Valley, is synonymous with gay culture. Revelers often spill onto the sidewalks at numerous bars, like Twin Peaks Tavern, whose floor-to-ceiling windows were revolutionary when it opened in 1972. The lavish Castro Theatre and the GLBT Historic Museum are also found here, as are homey restaurants and adult shops. On Market Street, 19th-century F-line streetcars head to Fisherman's Wharf.
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18,000 cows killed in Texas dairy farm explosion
... In a statement, The Castro County Sheriff s Office said they received a report of a fire at the farm at about 7:21 PM on 10 April...
18,000 cows killed in Texas dairy farm explosion
By Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, Washington
Approximately 18,000 cows were killed in A Blast at a Texas dairy farm earlier This Week , according to local authorities.
The Explosion , at South Fork Dairy near The Town of Dimmitt, also left one person in Critical Condition .
Authorities believe That machinery in the facility may have ignited methane gas.
Nearly three million farm animals died in fires across the US between 2018 and 2021.
In a statement, the Castro County Sheriff's Office said they received a report of a fire at The Farm at about 7:21 PM on 10 April.
Photos posted by the Sheriff's Office show a huge plume of black smoke rising from the ground.
When police and emergency personnel arrived at The Scene , they found one person trapped who had to be rescued and flown to hospital in Critical Condition .
While the exact figure of cows That were killed by fire and smoke remains unknown, a spokeswoman for the Castro County Sheriff's Office told The Bbc That " an estimated 18,000 head of cattle have been lost".
Speaking to local news outlet KFDA, Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera said That most of the cattle were lost after The Blaze spread to an area in which cows were held before being taken to a milking area And Then into a holding pen.
" There's some That survived, " he was quoted. " There's some That are probably injured to The Point where they'll have to be destroyed. "
Mr Rivera told KFDA That investigators believe The Fire may have started with a machine referred to as a " honey badger" which he described as " vacuum That sucks the manure and water out".
" Possibly [it] got overheated and probably the methane and things like That ignited and spread out and exploded, " He Said .
In a statement sent to The Bbc , the Washington DC-based Animal Welfare Institute said That - if confirmed - a Death Toll of 18,000 cows would be " by far" the deadliest barn fire involving cattle since it began keeping statistics in 2013.
" We hope the industry will remain focused on this issue and strongly encourage farms to adopt Common Sense fire safety measures, " said Allie Granger, policy associate for AWI's farm animal program. " It is hard to imagine anything worse than being burned alive. "
According to the AWI, nearly 6. 5m farm animals have been killed in barn fires since 2013, of which about 6m were chickens and about 7,300 were cows.
Between 2018 and 2021, nearly 3 million farm animals died in fire, with 1. 76m chickens dying in the six largest fires over That time period.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
