AR-News: (US PA) Fire strikes Woodland Zoo

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Fire strikes Woodland Zoo 




By Amanda Clegg , Herald-Standard 02/02/2004





At left, firefighters use a hose next to a statue of an elephant while 
fighting the fire. Paul Ruhter/Herald-Standard 
Darwin Herring, owner of the Woodland Zoo, said it wasn't so much the 
flickering blaze that upset more than 100 animals last night, but the sights and 
sounds that followed. 

"They were stressed out by the sirens and lights," he said. "They don't 
comprehend that."

At approximately 1 a.m. Sunday, fire crews arrived at the zoo to battle a 
fire, which broke out in a building containing a gift shop, a storage facility 
for the animal's food and the maintenance shed. 

"There's nothing left to save," Herring said of the loss of food, equipment 
and supplies, "just pounds of smoldering feed."

Herring said the closest animals to the fire were the coyotes and wolves, 
caged approximately 100 yards away.





full story:
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10901483&BRD=2280&PAG=461&d
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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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