Source: Hayley Fowler, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/24/20


An estimated 34,000 chickens died in poultry farm fires in North Carolina and Virginia over a 24-hour time period, according to media outlets and officials. The fires started at 3:30 p.m. on two consecutive days. Approximately 10,000 chickens were killed at a poultry house in North Carolina on Thursday before firefighters could put out the blaze, Chief M. Dale Couch of the Forbush Volunteer Fire Department told McClatchy News.

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