A fire on Monday evening July 20th destroyed two of three houses at the Red Bird Farm located in Woodstown, NJ.  Approximately 300,000 hens were lost in the conflagration that according to aerial images destroyed two of three houses.  Hens in the third house on the farm succumbed from heat and smoke inhalation after failure of the ventilation system.

There were no reports of injuries among first responders and at this time there is no report on the cause of the fire.

As with many rural fires affecting chicken farms, availability of water was a restraint in dousing the blaze requiring the use of tankers.