1,000 boilers die from heat stroke in Pangasinan
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DAGUPAN CITY-A thousand heads of chicken died of heat stroke in a poultry farm in Pozorrubio town on Thursday (April 19), two days after a 9-hour power outage in eastern Pangasinan on April 17, according to a belated report from the municipal agriculturist.1,000 boilers die from heat stroke in Pangasinan
DAGUPAN CITY-A thousand heads of chicken died of heat stroke in a poultry farm in Pozorrubio town on Thursday (April 19), two days after a 9-hour power outage in eastern Pangasinan on April 17, according to a belated report from the municipal agriculturist. «The poultry farm's back-up generator may not have worked, causing the broilers to eventually die from the heat,» said Clarito Corpuz, Pozorrubio agriculturist, in an interview Friday (April 20). Temperatures recorded at the government weather station in Dagupan City since the official start of the dry season on April 10 averaged at least 30 degrees Celsius, with the heat index reaching up to 45 degrees. The «heat index» is t...Keep on reading: 1,000 boilers die from heat stroke in Pangasinan Read more