WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — An early morning fire at a poultry plant led to the 14,000 chickens inside being killed.
Firefighters from Walton County and the City of Monroe responded to the plant on Mount Vernon Road just before 4:30 a.m.
When they arrived, they found the poultry house fully engulfed in flames. It took them several hours to put out the flames.
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NewsChopper 2 flew over the plant on Wednesday and saw massive damage to the building, which fire officials say was a total loss.
The building was used as a growing site to produce chickens for meat processing.
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At the time of the fire, 14,000 live chickens were inside and were lost.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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