Round 30,000 chickens died from smoke suffocation in a poultry farm in Albuñán (Comarca de Guadix) yesterday.
The hearth broke out round 16.00h and worn out three quarters of the chickens within the fattening shed. Not one of the staff had been within the shed on the time so no person was harm.
Three hearth crews from one of many hearth stations within the metropolis of Granada had been wanted to sort out and put out the fireplace.
Preliminary investigations factors in direction of a brief circuit inside the electrical installations, nonetheless that is but to be confirmed.
This poultry farm in Albuñán, a municipality of solely 419 inhabitants, is household run. Based on the Mayor, Álvaro Guerrero, the household are in a state of shock after having misplaced every thing in a query of hours.
It’s thought that the structural integrity of the constructing may have been compromised and may want to return down.
As for the chickens, they died quickly because the smoke crammed the shed inside ten minutes of the fireplace having began, in line with the fireplace chief.
(Information/Noticias: Albuñan, Guadix, Granada, Andalucia)