An Addison vehicle repair shop received assistance from the Addison Fire Protection District Tuesday to hose down about 14,000 hens on a broken-down semi truck traveling between farms in Indiana to Wisconsin. The fire battalion chief estimated between 500 to 1,000 died from heat exhaustion, but the rest were later picked up by another truck.
A load of 14,000 chickens that were stranded in suburban Chicago when the semitrailer they were in lost a wheel were later sprayed down by firefighters to
ADDISON, Ill. (AP) A load of 14,000 chickens that were stranded in suburban Chicago when the semitrailer they were in lost a wheel were later sprayed down by firefighters to protect the tightly-packed birds from overheating. The semi filled with birds was on Interstate 90 near Elgin when a wheel came off Tuesday morning, […]
An Addison vehicle repair shop received assistance from the Addison Fire Protection District Tuesday to hose down about 14,000 hens on a broken-down semi truck traveling between farms in Indiana to Wisconsin. The fire battalion chief estimated between 500 to 1,000 died from heat exhaustion, but the rest were later picked up by another truck.