An unknown number of birds were killed in a huge fire at a poultry farm on the hottest day of the year. Survivors were seen running around the wreckage of the site in Walton on the Wolds, near Loughborough, on Wednesday, July 20, a day after the incident took place.
The total number of deaths is not known but the shelter at the site housed 32,000 hens or chickens, according to Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service. Thick black smoke billowed from the farm throughout the evening.
Fire crews were alerted to the emergency shortly before 5.30pm and it did not take long before the flames ripped through the structure. Residents nearby were told to close their windows and doors due to the scale and ferocity of the fire, Leicestershire Live reports.
