“That’s why we were as aggressive as we were.” “With all the dust and shavings in there, it could light up so fast,” Manmiller said. Initial reports indicated multiple chicken houses were aflame, but crews arriving on site found that only a single house was affected … said that while there was smoke throughout the house, crews kept the fire to within about 30 feet from where it started, and only 20 or 30 of the house’s 28,000 chickens died.įood Processing Plant Fires in 2022, Explained On June 1 2022, the Reading Eagle reported on the cause and extent of that fire, showing that it was far less destructive than originally thought: While that story was true, engagement around that fire appears to have been conflated with another fire at another plant that same night, this one in Pennsylvania and adding weight to the narrative of a pattern.
Broadly, the Forsman Farms fire was an excellent example of the manner in which the rumors spread (not unlike a fire), contrasted with largely ignored subsequent reporting. We are evaluating the extent of the damage – which appears to be confined to a single structure – as well as investigating the cause of the fire.”īoth articles were published shortly after the Forsman Farms fire was reported, and both mentioned the possibility of the loss of thousands of egg-laying chickens. Unfortunately, chickens were lost because of the fire. No one was injured and we are grateful that first responders were quickly on scene to put out the fire. “Overnight, a fire destroyed one of our barns at our Howard Lake farm. They asserted that the image was a photograph of “food factory #19 in 2022,” which was “mysteriously torched” the image did not link to any additional information from a news source.Ī reverse image search did match the image to a WCCO article about a fire at Forsman Farms, “Tens Of Thousands Of Chickens Killed In Wright County Egg Farm Fire.” A KMSP piece about the incident included a statement from Forsman Farms about the blaze: The tweet addressed others who might be “not paying attention,” and shared a photograph of a structure fire. Advertisements A Jtweet about the latest in a purported string of food processing plant fires (or “food factory” fires) built on other, similar narratives in order to go viral:
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