#Woman watching livestream saves New York pigs from barn blaze

A pair of upstate pregnant pigs were saved from being turned into bacon — when a woman watching them on a livestream noticed their barn was on fire and raised the alarm.

Laura Palladino had visited the porkers at June Farms in West Sand Lake over the summer, and tuned into their “swine cam” over the weekend to see if they had given birth, WKBN reported.

But instead, she saw smoke in the livestream — and soon a fire had broken out, the outlet reported.

“I logged on and at first, I thought it was just, like, a wood-burning stove in the background,” Palladino said.

It turns out that one of the pigs, Ethel, had knocked over a heat lamp and started a barn blaze.

Palladino, who lives about 60 miles away from the farm in Dutchess County, called 911 to see if authorities could help.

“I just called 911, but I’m in Dutchess County, so the 911 [call] sent me to Dutchess County 911. And the operator, he was like, ‘What? You’re watching a YouTube video?’” Palladino recounted.

Luckily, she was able to make contact with the farm’s owner, Matt Baumgartner, and farmhand Joshua Vics, who rushed to the scene and got the inferno under control while waiting for the fire department to arrive.

“My mind immediately went to the worst. My heart dropped into my stomach,” Vics recalled to WKBN of hearing the pigs were in danger.

“I don’t like to think about how bad it could have been if she didn’t say something.”

He credited the web cam, which had been installed just the day before the fire, and Palladino’s quick thinking with saving the pigs’ lives.

“I never thought that when we saw these pigs that I would technically end up saving their life,” Palladino said.