PIGS and other sanctuaries
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000:
CHARLES TOWN, W.V.; LOS
ANGELES; BOSTON––Dale Riffle,
cofounder of PIGS: A Sanctuary, is fighting
for his life in a Washington D.C. hospital after
suffering second and third-degree burns over
30% of his body in a June 23 explosion.
Apparently spilled gasoline vaporized,
formed a fireball, and caught Riffle
from behind as he burned debris during a final
clean-up of PIGS’ vacated original location.
Riffle’s longtime partner, Jim
Brewer, told ANIMAL PEOPLE that his
prognosis is optimistic.
The injury to Riffle was the third
catastrophe afflicting PIGS since it relocated in
mid-1999 from its original five-acre site to the
present site 10 miles away.
In November 1999 Riffle suffered a
fractured hip when he fell from a barn roof at
the new site.