More than 18,000 cows have died in an explosion and subsequent hearth at a household dairy farm in Texas.

Firefighters rescued one worker from the South Fork Dairy close to Dimmitt on Monday as flames raced via a constructing and into holding pens, in accordance with the Castro County Sheriff's Office.

The reason for the fireplace is underneath investigation, and the farm relies in one of many state's greatest milk manufacturing counties.

The blaze prompted calls from the Animal Welfare Institute - one of many oldest US animal safety teams - for federal legal guidelines to stop barn fires that kill a whole lot of hundreds of livestock annually.

"This would be the most deadly fire involving cattle in the past decade, since we started tracking that in 2013," spokesperson Marjorie Fishman mentioned.

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There are not any federal rules defending animals from the fires and just a few states, Texas not amongst them, have adopted hearth safety codes for such buildings, in accordance with an AWI assertion.

Around 6.5 million livestock have died in such fires within the final decade, most of them poultry.

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