A massive fire tore through Daybreak Foods’ chicken farm northwest of Clearfield, destroying at least one barn packed with birds and marking the second major fire at the site in less than four years.

The fire started on Tuesday, Aug. 26, in a manure building with no chickens inside and spread through a conveyor system that couldn’t be shut off in time, Deputy Chance Strough of the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office told the Des Moines Register.

The flames carried into a housing barn that burned to the ground with more than 110,000 chickens inside. Employees later feared most of the chickens in an adjacent barn also likely died from smoke inhalation when the fire reignited later that night, Strough said.

Smoke could be seen billowing into the sky in images and videos from the scene. Rod Live

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