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.