From the article:

“So I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and this is probably the worse situation of this type of case that I’ve come across,” Shaw said.

Officials said sheep, cows, horses, dogs and other farm animals at a makeshift farm were involved.

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Im not sure how they resolve that the kids mentioned in the story are not affected or involved in some way... Wowz!