At Least 240,000 Chickens Are Killed in Fire at Florida Egg Farm

At Least 240,000 Chickens Are Killed in Fire at Florida Egg Farm
The financial loss from the fire, which destroyed two barns owned by Cal-Maine Foods in Dade City, Fla., was estimated at $1 million, officials said.
Two of the four barns on a farm owned by Cal-Maine Foods were destroyed in a fire on Thursday.Credit...SKY10 News, via YouTube
Dec. 17, 2020
At least 240,000 chickens were killed early Thursday when a fire swept through two densely packed barns in Florida owned by one of the nation’s largest distributors of eggs, the authorities said.
The fire was reported around 1 a.m. by farmhands at the Cal-Maine Foods facility in Dade City, Fla., Shawn Whited, operations division chief for the Pasco County Fire Rescue, said in an interview.

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