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Minnesota fire at commercial egg farm likely leaves thousands of chickens dead
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A fireplace at a industrial egg farm in Minnesota on late Saturday evening seemingly left hundreds of chickens lifeless.
The fireplace started on late Saturday evening and hearth crews responded to the incident shortly after 10 p.m. at a Forsman Farms facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota, based on FOX 9 Minneapolis.
In keeping with the report, the fireplace got here from a barn that homes chickens and manure. Deputies mentioned that the primary constructing concerned within the hearth was considerably broken, and surrounding buildings obtained mild injury.
The Wright County Sheriff’s Workplace estimated that there have been seemingly 200,000 chickens within the barn when the fireplace broke out, based on the report.
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The Wright County Sheriff’s Workplace estimated that there have been seemingly 200,000 chickens within the barn when the fireplace broke out, based on the report.
(Wright County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Deputies mentioned that they do not consider the fireplace is a results of legal exercise.
A spokesperson for the corporate confirmed to FOX 9 that chickens died within the hearth, however mentioned that no folks had been harm.
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“In a single day, a hearth destroyed one in every of our barns at our Howard Lake farm. Nobody was injured and we’re grateful that first responders had been shortly on scene to place out the fireplace. Sadly, chickens had been misplaced due to the fireplace. We’re evaluating the extent of the injury – which seems to be confined to a single construction – in addition to investigating the reason for the fireplace,” the spokesperson mentioned.