- Over 100 firefighters fought the fire for over four-and-a-half hours battle before bringing it under control Saturday afternoon.
- The the town fire marshal is investigating the three-alarm chicken coop blaze.
- The fire comes amid already-high egg prices, in part due to a large of avian influenza in the United States.
- Over 58 million birds have died from the influenza since last year, according to Agriculture Department data.