Wisconsin leads the nation when it comes to the number of animals that die in barn fires.
A report by the Animal Welfare Institute shows Wisconsin had 19 of those kind of fires, Ohio and New York came in second with 18 each.
Bellevue Fire Chief Jack Mlnarik has worked in rural areas and has been to quite a few of those fires.
He says barn fires are often hard to contain.
He says smoke detectors work in homes because there are people who can respond to the alarm but that’s not the case in barns.
Mlnarik says barn fires are three times more likely to happen in the winter and are often cause by faulty wiring or an unattended heat source.
