The roof collapse happened Wednesday night around 6:30 at the King Brothers Dairy farm in Northumberland. The recent weather and snowfall is likely to blame.
Thursday, the family was left with a lot of clean up and lost livestock.
Everywhere you looked today pieces of barn and piles of snow covered the ground.
"We had quite a terrible collapse - half of this 120 by 400 foot barn," said Jan King, one of the farm owners.
Inside there were about 250 animals. Seventy-five were injured or killed. It is a devastating blow for the family owned company. But it could have been even worse if it wasn't for a community that stepped in.
King says that he made just two calls last night when this happened, one to his brother who is also the co-owner, the other to his cousin. But within an hour appoximately 200 people had showed up to help.
"It was unbelievable last night, between three fire departments and local neighbors, there were some people here I didn't even know who they were," said King.
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