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About 17,000 chickens were killed in a weekend fire that leveled a barn at a poultry farm here...
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YELM - About 17,000 chickens were killed in a weekend fire that leveled a barn at a poultry farm here.
The blaze started at about 4 p.m. Saturday in a barn at Draper Valley Farms, said Chief Rita Hutcheson of the Southeast Thurston County fire district.
The barn was about the size of a football field, and the fire started in the middle, making it nearly impossible to stop, Hutcheson said. The wooden barn had a sawdust floor and was heated with propane, Hutcheson said.
Firefighters were able to save four surrounding barns, about 30 feet apart.
Firefighters from Rainier, Lacey, Tenino, McLane and East Olympia were called in to fight the blaze, she said.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
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