About 11,000 chickens died on a farm in Statesville Tuesday morning after a fire engulfed and destroyed a chicken house on the property.
Firefighters arrived to the farm at 405 Vaughn Mill Road shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, where they found the the chicken house in flames, the Statesville Record & Landmark reported. A dozen were able to escape the fire, the paper reported, but firefighters were unable to save the thousands of remaining chickens trapped by the flames.
“We just managed (the fire) and protected it from spreading,” David Johnson of the County Line Volunteer Fire Department, told the Record & Landmark.