300K chickens lost in Tooele County egg farm fire

ERDA, Tooele County — More than 300,000 chickens died in a massive fire at the Fassio Egg Farms on Tuesday morning.A maintenance employee spotted flames inside a chicken coop around 7:30 a.m., according to Corby Larsen, vice president of operations at the farm.The fire quickly engulfed the first building, one of the farm's largest chicken coops, and spread to a second coop. Each one houses about 120,000 to 150,000 chickens, Larsen said."Unfortunately, if the fire gets in those, it moves ve