14,000 Chickens Killed When Poultry House Catches Fire at Processing Plant
An early morning fire at a poultry plant led to the 14,000 chickens inside being killed.
Firefighters from Walton County and the City of Monroe responded to the plant on Mount Vernon Road just before 4:30 a.m [Tuesday, Jan 13].
When they arrived, they found the poultry house fully engulfed in flames. It took them several hours to put out the flames.
NewsChopper 2 flew over the plant on Wednesday and saw massive damage to the building, which fire officials say was a total loss.
The building was used as a growing site to produce chickens for meat processing.
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