A team of fire investigators from the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office is combing through the ashes of a Cecil County chicken coop, trying to determine what caused Monday night's multimillion-dollar blaze at the egg producing plant.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Bruce Bouch said the 3-alarm fire at the ISE America egg processing plant at 605 Sassafras Road in Warwick, about a mile and a half from the Delaware line, destroyed about 220,000 chickens, each valued at $3.
The fire began at 7:20 p.m. Monday in the #2 chicken coop and quickly spread to two other 50-foot-by-530-foot coops before being brought under control by firefighters battling the flames and high wind conditions.
Bouch said the fire destroyed three coops and damaged a fourth chicken coop, which sustained heat damage.
Each coop was valued at $2 million.
The farm manager was alerted to the fire by a working high heat alarm system and called 911 when fire was seen coming from the #2 coop.
More than 100 firefighters from Kent and Cecil counties in Maryland as well as Delaware firefighters battled more than five hours to control. One Odessa firefighter was treated at Union Hospital in Elkton for a wrist injury and released.
Damage was estimated at $7 million, Bouch said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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